Inside Google founder Sergey Brin’s multimillion-dollar ‘Fly Fleet’: the world’s 14th richest person owns megayachts Butterfly and Dragonfly, but how does his collection stack up to Larry Page’s?
- Since stepping back from Google, Sergey Brin has been pictured at Burning Man, fought off rumours about his wife and Elon Musk … and built himself quite the flotilla
- Aside from 3 impressive yachts, he also owns several state-of-the-art aquatic vehicles made by Kai Concepts, a company helmed by champion windsurfer Don Montague
Since stepping down from Alphabet in 2019, Google founder Sergey Brin has truly been living the high life. Or should that be the “fly life”?
In a quiet harbour in California’s Redwood City, around 50km south of San Francisco, there often sits a gleaming 40-metre yacht flying the flag of the Marshall Islands.
The sleek, silver-and-white vessel sits among a smattering of other high-end cruisers, but this boat is a bit different: Butterfly, as the yacht is known, is owned by the world’s 14th richest person, Google’s co-founder Brin.
The Butterfly isn’t the tech mogul’s only oceangoing investment
Brin has quietly collected a fleet of luxury yachts and watersports vehicles that those in his inner circle call the “Fly Fleet”, a recent investigation into the post-Google lives of the 49-year-old and his fellow Google founder, Larry Page, found.
The blossoming armada is just one way he’s been keeping busy since stepping back from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, in 2019 – along with a string of high-flying parties such as Burning Man, an effort to build a new generation of zeppelins, and hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropic donations.
Brin maintains a growing flotilla of yachts, jet skis and skiffs
