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Although his buildings serve as homes for world-famous companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google, Jay Paul is virtually unknown. Over the past 40 years the publicity-shy San Francisco-based builder has quietly amassed an estimated $1.5 billion net worth by satiating the desire for high-end office space among Silicon Valley's top tech firms. Google, which already leases 1.2 million square feet from his privately held Jay Paul Co., recently signed on for another 1.9 million square feet in Moffett Place, a Sunnyvale development in progress. Paul's first project in San Francisco proper, which broke ground in November, will reshape the city's skyline with the 56-story 181 Fremont, the tallest mixed-use tower west of the Mississippi.