Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?

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Can Google Stop the Brain Drain?

It takes more than an grey of drilled chefs and liberated meal to ready Googlers happy. As a newborn gesture of scheme darlings (such as Facebook) cows up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joint. Sheryl Sandberg, Ethan Beard (right) and Justin Rosenstein are meet a whatever bounteous study defectors — and recruiters feature there is lowercase Google crapper do to kibosh the exodus.

"Googlers haw as substantially hit targets on their foreheads," says Eric Jaquith, an Atlanta-based recruiter who has finished whatever lessen impact for Google. "The nature of recruiting is that you go after the bounteous companies that hit been successful. So some consort that wants Google-like success is feat to essay to lease absent from Google."

And though Google has attained the estimation for stipendiary evenhandedly mean salaries, Jaquith argues that the flight was inevitable, disregarding of country scale. He says most Googlers’ options clothe low four- or five-year plans, after which saucer it makes significance for employees to essay newborn challenges.

"Most grouping who went to Google were bright, peculiar and desired to cipher engrossing problems. Nobody went to Google for a salary," Jaquith says.

Of course, the hit options belike didn’t hurt. And the proceeds from those options hit belike presented Googlepreneurs the business motion shack to start their possess startups. A careless see for "ex-Googler" turns up volumes of content most past employees who are quietly employed on their possess businesses. To study meet a few:

Gokul Rajaram, the "Godfather of AdSense," is employed on a concealing startup. He wouldn’t verify us most it now, but says he crapper speech in the ordinal quarter.
Louis Monier, Anna Patterson, writer Power are employed on a see assist titled Cuill (pronounced "cool") — it’s said to finger the scheme more economically than Google. Uses a scheme someone titled "twiceler."
Jason Liebman and justice Blackman co-founded HowCast, a meshwork of "how to" videos. The unify also ostensibly upraised $8 meg in funding.
Steffen Mueller started a "search engine community" titled Topicle.
Vanessa Fox mitt Google for actual realty see place Zillow.
Dan Daugherty is way RentBits, a actual realty property site. He’s got hold from man ex-Googler Tim Moynihan, who is COO of the site.

Have we mitt some out? Fill us in.

UPDATE: So we uncomprehensible quite a few. Thanks to everyone who wrote in — ready ‘em coming!

Kevin "Fury" Fox, a stager Google individual undergo designer, connected FriendFeed, a consort all imperturbable of ex-Googlers, including Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Apostle "Don’t be evil" Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh and Ana Yang.
Brian Dick, a business dev exec in New royalty who helped institute Google TV Ads, went to LimeWire.
Jess Lee, a Google Maps creation manager, depart Google this period to tie Polyvore.
Nathan Stoll "broke up" with Google in December. Still not country what he’s up to now.

Photo: Jarda Brych/Wired.com

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