Not saying it happened in the case of Quip, but last year Google effectively paid $380M for Diane Greene: https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/19/google-buys-bebop-a

Not saying it happened in the case of Quip, but last year Google effectively paid $380M for Diane Greene: https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/19/google-buys-bebop-and-names-diane-greene-to-lead-enterprise-cloud-effort/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/19/google-buys-bebop-and-name...