3 High Profile Engineers Leave Google
When Vanessa Fox, lead developer at Google Webmaster Central, left Google last week to work at Zillow, I considered it a minor event and didn’t even report, but the report this morning at SEL of Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google really makes one ask whether we are watching a developing trend or just a coincidence?
The two developers, Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, were largely responsible for the development of Google Maps as well as other Google products. Both have left Google to work at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm.
Is streamline-ness taking away from its innovative-ness? Is free enterprise starting to take over the “Google dream”?
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Benchmark Capital says the new Google catches will be “entrepreneurs in residence.” Benchmark’s clients include Zillow, Art.com, SecondLife, Redhat and other high profile internet/computer companies. They are there “to evaluate new business opportunities.”
Link: http://www.benchmark.com/news/sv/2007/06_21_2007.php