Shaquille O'Neal reveals he invested roughly $250,000 into Google before it went public after a stranger he met at a hotel told him about the company “He started talking about Google. I had no idea what he was talking about” “So I give it to my money guy. I said, ‘Hey man, met this guy. He’s talking about this Google thing, search engine thing in the future’” “He said, ‘Hey man. This looks pretty promising’. I put in a little bit and I forgot about it” “Then one day I was reading the paper and they talked about all the guys that were first investors and that was a nice big hit… which I lost all of in my divorce”