Close to the Vest - The search giant's young millionaires are cashing in and checking out

http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0702/028.html

by danielha • 19 years ago

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far33d• 19 years ago

I guess now's a good time if you are looking to join a startup. Just hang outside the googleplex handing out resumes to the guys driving the nicest cars who are leaving the earliest.

gaborcselle• 19 years ago

"Our mission is not to make Google as big as possible; it is to organize the world's information," says Laszlo Bock, vice president of people operations at Google. "If we seed the next 200 great startups, that's no bad thing."

I never looked at it this way. If Google is the catalyst of many successful startups in the future, that's also a way to leave an overall positive impact on the world. A surprisingly grown-up way of looking at things.

gyro_robo2• 19 years ago

Seems like it would make more sense to do it directly, though, than funnel millions out the door with no return.

A Google investment fund.

iloveyouocean• 19 years ago

Who do you think will end up buying all the successful run-off companies? Its much easier just to pick the winners than mess around with a ton of investments.

Close to the Vest - The search giant's young millionaires are cashing in and checking out

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