So I've been reading about this dude, and apparently he started _several_ technology companies _while working at Google_, and sold a couple of them back to Goog

So I've been reading about this dude, and apparently he started _several_ technology companies _while working at Google_, and sold a couple of them back to Google. Clearly his Google employment contract terms weren't the same as mine. In fact "normal" employees would be fired the same day for some of the things he did even before he copied off a bunch of Google IP. I kind of wonder what's so special about the guy that Google wanted him so bad that they let him basically write his own employment contract, allowed him to have huge conflicts of interest, and then also paid like tens of millions in bonuses per year. I also wonder what else he wrote into that employment contract of his. You can charge anybody with anything, doesn't mean it'll stick.