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Living the Good Life, Leaving Google Behind

Posted by kdawson on from the calling-in-rich dept.

inetsee writes with an article in the San Francisco Chronicle profiling seven early Googlers who have left the company, part of a cohort the article claims amounts to 100 out of the first 300 workers hired by Google. For these former employees, all the acclaimed perks of life at the Googleplex can't compete with calling the shots in their own lives. Google's chef is opening his own restaurant, Olana Khan has started a non-profit that makes micro-loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, and Aydin Senkut has become an angel investor. Others are simply enjoying retirement, making things in the garage shop or skydiving in South Africa.

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  1. Quick Poll... by SnapShot · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you made multi-million dollars in a start up tech company would you:
    1. Leave to pursue your interests.
    2. Continue to work at the company until retiremennt.
    3. Burn the money in a huge trash barrel and join a Buddist monestary.
    4. Hire private detectives to stalk CowboyNeal?

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    1. Re:Quick Poll... by Overzeetop · · Score: 5, Funny

      That blur you would see would be me leaving the building. There are few jobs worth actually staying at if you have the wealth to pursue your own course.

      Hell, I could just sit around all day and post on slashdot. Oh, right.

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    2. Re:Quick Poll... by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 5, Funny
      If you made multi-million dollars in a start up tech company

      I would sleep with two women at the same time.