Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?
By Betsy SchiffmanEd: Did underwater options have an impact?
It takes more than an army of trained chefs and free lunch to keep Googlers happy. As a new wave of web darlings (such as Facebook) beef up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joint. Sheryl Sandberg, Ethan Beard (right) and Justin Rosenstein are just a few big name defectors -- and recruiters say there is little Google can do to stop the exodus...
- Gokul Rajaram, the "Godfather of AdSense," is working on a stealth startup. Can't talk about it now, but he says he can in the third quarter.
- Louis Monier, Anna Patterson, Russell Power are working on a search service called Cuill (pronounced "cool") -- it's said to index the web more economically than Google. Uses a web crawler called "twiceler."
- Jason Liebman, Sanjay Raman and Daniel Blackman co-founded HowCast, a network of "how to" videos. The
paircompany has apparently raised $8 million in funding. - Steffen Mueller started a "search engine community" called Topicle.
- Vanessa Fox left Google for real estate search site Zillow.
- Dan Daugherty is heading RentBits, a real estate rental site. He's got support from fellow ex-Googler Tim Moynihan, who is COO of the site.
- Veteran user experience designer Kevin "Fury" Fox joined FriendFeed, a company entirely composed of ex-Googlers.
- Also at FriendFeed: Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul "Don't be evil" Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh and Ana Yang.
- Brian Dick, a biz dev exec in New York who helped found Google TV Ads, is now at LimeWire.
- Jess Lee, a Google Maps product manager, quit Google this month to join Polyvore.
- Nathan Stoll "broke up" with Google in December. Still not clear what he's up to.
- Sean Knapp, Belsasar Lepe and Bismarck Lepe founded Ooyala, a video delivery platform, in early 2007. So far, they've raised about $10 million.
- Jason Shellen left Google in August 2007. Started incubator The Secret Agency.
- Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman are twittering.
- Rob Radez, Gabor Cselle are working at email startup Xobni. Radez just left Google a couple weeks ago; Cselle fled about a year ago.
- Chris Sacca, former head of special initiatives at Google, is now an angel investor and private equity principal.
- Clint Guerrero is now a consultant and traveler.
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