Scott Hassan
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Scott Hassan is an American computer scientist and entrepeneur.[1]
In the 1990s, when Hassan was working as a research assistant at Stanford University, his duties included rewriting the original code Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had written for their PhD theses.[1] Hassan encouraged them to turn the code into an official product, and, although he was never an official Google employee, they allowed him to purchase 160,000 shares, for $800.
Hassan has been described as Google's third, unofficial founder.[1]
Hassan went on to found other companies, and to be an initial investor in other companies.[1]
Marriage and divorce
Hassan met Allison Huynh, another Stanford grad, in 2000, and the pair married in 2001.[1][2] Hassan and Huynh did not sign a prenuptial agreement.
The couple had three children together.[1][2]
According to The New York Times, in 2004, Hassan suggested that, in return for "waiving any future claims to marital assets", he would transfer some of his assets to her.[1][2] The assets he was willing to transfer constituted only a small fraction of his net worth, and she declined.
In 2013 Hassan informed Huynh he was commencing divorce proceedings against her, via text message.[1][2] By 2021 the divorce procedure had dragged out for more than seven years, while other billionaire's divorces were handled more promptly and more quietly. Huynh has claimed Hassan is dragging the procedure out, out of malice.
In August of 2021 Huynh became aware that someone had created a website in her name, that included links to three potentially embarrassing websites.[1][2] She suspected Hassan, and hired researchers to examine the site for clues to his involvement. Ironically, when they failed to find any signs, and she took a closer look, herself, she found clues he had created it, in the site's DNS registration. According to The New York Post Hassan acknowledged he had created the site, stating:
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Daisuke Wakabayashi (2021-08-20). "Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce". The New York Times (Palo Alto, California): p. B1. Archived from the original on 2021-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210820090558/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/technology/Scott-Hassan-Allison-Huynh-divorce.html. Retrieved 2021-08-28. "Mr. Hassan is not a household name, certainly not like Mr. Brin or Larry Page, the men credited with starting Google. But without Mr. Hassan’s contribution, Google may have been nothing more than a computer science project at Stanford University."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Michael Kaplan (2021-08-20). "Google ‘founder’ admits he created revenge site against estranged wife". New York Post. Archived from the original on 2021-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210820184231/https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/google-founder-created-revenge-site-against-estranged-wife/. Retrieved 2021-08-28. "Scott Hassan, 51, who wrote much of the original code that powers the search giant, is embroiled in a nasty divorce battle that has raged for seven years and involves millions of dollars, claims of treating his children unfairly — and even a shocking online revenge campaign."
