...why are you picking out good ole' Paul Tortellini in particular?
Anyone who invested as heavily in the company at that point in time would have realized that benefit in principle. The only surplus received was the rebate they gave him on buying the shares over that day's normal stock price (which, by the way, you are not mentioning in the article). So, to be halfway fair, you should really be stating Paul's gains on that portion of the transaction only.
Keep in mind that Google could as well have miserably failed. In that case, Paul could have lost a lot of money. He risked and won. Congratulations to him there.

well there have been better stocks than google... a lot better, too bad i only manage to read about other people making money on them.