There are requirements beyond that including that it's unrelated to anything your employer does. If you work at Google or a similarly broad tech giant, unfortun

There are requirements beyond that including that it's unrelated to anything your employer does. If you work at Google or a similarly broad tech giant, unfortunately that means they probably own the IP of almost anything you could do despite California's otherwise generous law. I wish the law was worded such that it just had to be unrelated to the work that employee does for the employer, but it was not written with that forsight.