I had a different experience than you had when I was working in Google Brazil. I was the first AdWords Product Specialist in the office - also, the office only

I had a different experience than you had when I was working in Google Brazil. I was the first AdWords Product Specialist in the office - also, the office only had 50 people; it really felt like a startup in 2006. At the bottom of my heart, I always wanted to build my own startup or work with startup so eventually I left Google. Now, during that time, I did my work as many other Googlers would do but the difference is that I was in a position to access huge amount of training materials, design docs, 3rd party research materials, etc. In my "spare" time, I just went through and read, absorbed as much as I could; so at the end, I did learn a lot but outside from my usual scope of work.