Where have all the Googlers gone?
Would you like to recruit Google employees, but not getting much luck? You may have better luck with ex-Googlers? Not sure where to find them. Here are a few clues to help you out.
- Gokul Rajaram, the “Godfather of AdSense,” is working on a stealth startup.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vijay Boyapati is involved in Politics.
- Google’s international sales professional services team, is now chief operating officer at charitable micro-finance site Kiva.org (which President Bill Clinton promoted in his recent book, Giving).
- The micro-messaging service Twitter, for example, was co-founded by an ex-Googler.
- Former Google sales manager and current venture capitalist Aydin Senkut has invested in municipal Wi-Fi developer Meraki, along with several other former employees.
- Georges Harik, one of Google’s first 10 engineers, former director of new products, now investor and founder of a nonprofit artificial intelligence lab.
- Former Google sales manager and current venture capitalist Aydin Senkut has invested in municipal Wi-Fi developer Meraki, along with several other former employees.
- Georges Harik, one of Google’s first 10 engineers, former director of new products, now investor and founder of a nonprofit artificial intelligence lab - Willow Garage.
- Evan Williams, co-founder of Google acquisition Pyra Labs, now entrepreneur and investor.
- Click here for a list of 85 Google Employees
SOURCES: CNET, Wired and Wikipedia
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