__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 09 April 2007 17:27 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that AB spake thusly:
>> http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_5621472?nclick_check=1
>>
>> Less than three years after going public, Google is confronting one
>> of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a
>> potential brain drain if its earliest - and richest - employees quit
>> after earning the right to cash in the last of the stock options
>> that made them millionaires.
>>
>> Hundreds of the 2,300 Googlers hired before the Internet
>> juggernaut's initial public offering in August 2004 are hitting
>> their fourth anniversary. When they do, they'll be free to cash in
>> the final portions of their pre-IPO options, collectively worth an
>> estimated $2.6 billion before taxes.
>
> There is one thing that could stop those Googlers retiring early, cash
> or no cash ... boredom (speaking from experience).
>
> Of course some may opt to go independent, but why bother moving away
> from the winning team?
They are moving away from Microsoft. I'm finding more story about Microsoft
ditchers. Will post some shortly.
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~~ With kind regards
Roy S. Schestowitz | Ballmer O/S - so furious it may crash
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http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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