In 2011 we decided that if the unthinkable happened, the surviving partner should immediately receive the value of all the Googler’s unvested stock. We also decided to continue paying 50 percent of the Googler’s salary to the survivor for the next ten years. And if there were children, the family would receive an additional $1,000 each month until they turned nineteen, or twenty-three if they were full-time students. We didn’t tell anyone about the change, not even Googlers.
