Larry and Sergey now financing movies…
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The SF Chron has the story about Google co-founders Larry Page and Serge Brin financing a local film:
Brin and Page were joined as executive producers of “Broken Arrows” by another college friend, Martin Roscheisen, chief executive of Nanosolar, a solar panel manufacturer in Palo Alto. The two Google founders recently invested in Nanosolar…
…Shooting took place this year in such San Francisco locations as the Presidio, Zebulon Cafe in the South of Market neighborhood, and Adobe Books in the Mission…
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