Google Expands Miami Office as Co-Founders Flee California for South Florida
Google’s Miami office has grown fourfold this year as the company adds mostly sales, service and support jobs.
- Alphabet, Google's parent company, quadrupled its Miami office footprint this year, signing a lease to expand to 45,000 square feet at 1450 Brickell Avenue in the city's financial district.
- Anonymous sources told Bloomberg the expansion was partially driven by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin's recent residential real estate purchases after they relocated from California to South Florida.
- Page reportedly paid upwards of $173 million for two waterfront Miami estates, while Brin added a separate megamansion to his $197 million property portfolio.
- The relocations coincide with California voters considering a 5% wealth tax on billionaires this November, prompting Brin to declare, "I FLED SOCIALISM" publicly.
- Miami has increasingly become a hub for tech firms like Palantir and Blackstone seeking tax-friendly environments, though Google's South Florida presence remains far smaller than its 10 million-square-foot Mountain View headquarters.
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