Where have all the Googlers gone?

Posted by Jim Stroud

April 11, 2008

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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