This billionaire tech executive has threatened companies that he will make sure their websites can’t be found unless they do and say and print exactly what he wants about some troublesome events surrounding him as of late.

Scott Hassan

Co-founder of Google

Google ‘founder’ admits he created revenge site against estranged wife

In 2018, Google shirked off its unofficial motto, “Don’t be evil.” Maybe that was a sign.

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.

His ex wife, Allison Huynh, a senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Robotics Laboratory, claims Hassan is withholding a fortune that her attorney claims she is legally entitled to.

“In 2018, the [couple’s] estate was valued at $1.8 billion and [Hassan] wanted to give her a minuscule fraction,” Huynh’s attorney Pierce O’Donnell claimed in a statement to The Post. “His court position is that she gets nothing: Zero, zip, nada. Every settlement conference, he’s reduced his offer. I haven’t seen that in my 45-year-long career. He’s trying to pull off the ultimate dirty trick on his wife and three teenage children.”

A genius at robotics, Hassan is characterized as a high-tech Dr. Dolittle who can talk to computers. Although he was never an employee of Google, Hassan’s remarkable early contributions mean he is known as the company’s unofficial third founder, along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Before he and Huynh wed in 2001, he obtained the right to cheaply purchase shares in the company, which, today, would be worth billions of dollars.

But as divorce settlement proceedings are scheduled to start Monday in San Jose, Calif., Hassan is embroiled in a much less prestigious online endeavor.

After being accused by his ex, he has admitted to launching the site AllisonHuynh.com earlier this year, seeding it with links to positive articles written about his ex — but also links to court documents from three embarrassing lawsuits that involve her.

“Scott was trying to bully me into dropping my [fight for assets] and accepting a pittance,” Huynh told The Post.

Asked if he put up the site, Hassan admitted to The Post: “I did, but I have taken it down. It came together in a moment of frustration, when I felt Allison and her attorney were telling one-sided stories to the press. I thought aggregating publicly available information without commenting or editorializing would help … It only ended up making our dispute more public and tense, which was never what I intended.”

Within the documents posted are sexual allegations related to Huynh’s wrongful termination suit against her former employer Samuel Ockman and Penguin Computing in 2000. They claim that Huynh threatened to “kill [Ockman] and then herself” if he ever left her and “kept track of when Ockman was out with a new girlfriend,” according to the cross complaint filed by Ockman and his attorney in response to Huynh’s suit. – Source

Who is Scott Hassan, the Google ‘founder’ accused of ‘divorce terrorism’

Scott Hassan, who is credited for writing much of the initial coding for Google, has been hogging the limelight for setting up a website to badmouth his ex-wife. Accused of “divorce terrorism”, the 51-year old Stanford alumnus reportedly dumped his wife of 13 years, Allison Huynh, over a text.

While the divorce happened seven years ago, the two are still battling over the division of billions of dollars of assets. A hearing of their case will take place in a San Jose (California) court today (August 30).

Who is Scott Hassan?

While Sergey Brin and Larry Page are famous worldwide as Google founders, Scott Hassan was also part of the team that shaped Google (BackRub then) in 1996. He was the head programmer who did coding for much of Google’s original framework.

Hassan is also one of the key developers of Alexa Internet and the Stanford Digital Library. In 2011, Hassan founded Suitable Technologies, a company known for its teleconferencing robots. He sold the company to Denmark’s Blue Ocean Robotics in 2019.

Hassan also founded eGroups, an email management portal, which was sold to Yahoo in 2000 for $432 million. At present, he heads Willow Garage, a robotics company.

In 2006, Hassan also formed a limited liability company called Greenheart Investments. According to the company’s regulatory filing in 2015, it was valued at more than $1 billion.

Even though Hassan never held any position in Google, he owns 1,60,000 shares of Google — which he had bought for US $800. Today, they are worth US $13 billion. Hassan’s net worth is estimated to be over US $1 billion but the combined investments of the former couple are pegged at US $1.8 billion (as of 2018).

The divorce

The two had met through mutual friends at Stanford in 2000. Huynh, who immigrated to the United States from Vietnam after the war, attended Stanford on scholarship. They got married in 2005 and separated in 2015 after a few attempts at counselling. While Hassan said Huynh accused him of infidelity in front of kids, Huynh maintains that she had just asked about his whereabouts during long absences from the house. The couple have three children.

It has been reported that Allison Huynh, 46-year-old, is seeking 50 percent of the assets. Hassan attempted to enter into a post-nuptial agreement with Huynh, but in vain. Subsequently, he set up a website just to make embarrassing information from Huynh’s past public.

She accused him of “divorce terrorism”.

Hassan admitted to setting up the website in a New York Times interview saying, “I did, but I have taken it down. It came together in a moment of frustration when I felt Allison and her attorney were telling one-sided stories to the press.”

Hassan said it is beyond doubt that Huynh will become a ‘woman of generational wealth’ after the divorce case is resolved.
The entire episode is now being seen as the ugliest of Silicon Valley divorces. – Source

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