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9 Ex-Googlers on the Move
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• Googlers everywhere• While Google is widely regarded
as one of the best places to work in the technology industry, some Googlers seem to do just fine even after leaving Mountain View. Here are a few Google alums you may have heard of.
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Tim Armstrong
While it’s easy to make jokes – who moves from Google to
AOL? – current AOL chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong used to
be the president of Google Americas.
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Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom worked at Google for a couple years before
founding Instagram, then selling the photo sharing startup to
Facebook for $1 billion. Not too shabby.
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Ben Silbermann
The Pinterest founder spent a brief stint as a product designer at Google, before departing to
design iPhone apps, and, eventually, the runaway hit that
would make him famous.
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Marissa Mayer
You may have heard, recently, that former Google executive
Melissa Mayer is the new CEO of Yahoo.
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Bret Taylor
Taylor, who recently resigned as CTO of Facebook to start his own company, first came to
prominence as one of the prime movers behind Google Maps.
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Biz Stone and Evan Williams
The Twitter co-founders met at Google after the company bought Williams’ Blogger
platform and Stone was hired to work on it.
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Sheryl Sandberg
Sandberg worked at Google for more than six years before
becoming COO of Facebook, as well as that company’s first
female board member.
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Dennis Crowley
After Dodgeball, his first mobile-based social media project, was
acquired by Google, Crowley worked at the company for
three years before quitting to found Foursquare, his second
foray into location-based social services.
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Larry Brilliant
The noted philanthropist and physician directed Google’s
philanthropic Google.org division from 2006 to 2009.
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