Apple's tanking stock doesn't just mean a lot of lost money for Apple employees and tech traders, but the rest of us, too. It is very likely that either you or your 401k has some Apple shares.
Over the last week Eric Schmidt has sold 174,165 shares of Google stock for a $130 million pay out, which for normal people would be a lot of money and power, but for the Google chairman it's neither of those things.
The answer would be around $900 million.
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