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- Insane $1.6bn Powerball jackpot is nearly as much cash as Google has ever raised
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday 14 January 2016
If you were one of the millions of people caught up in ‘Powerball fever’ yesterday in the US, you can be forgiven for wanting a little slice of the $1.6 billion jackpot, even if the existence of such a large jackpot is utter insanity. Yes, it’s fun to think for a few minutes about what you might do if you were super-rich, but a jackpot that’s almost as large as the total amount of money raised by Google or Netflix just doesn’t sit right to me. That’s right, in total, Google has raised just under $1.7 billion, and Netflix has…
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