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What percentage of your fellow Googlers are ex-startup-founders? Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find
by jimboyoungblood 14y ago
What percentage of your fellow Googlers are ex-startup-founders?
Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find more interesting are found in higher density in startups than BigCo's. ymmv.
- nostrademons 14y agoI don't know what it is company-wide. Among the immediate teams I work with - I am, my boss is, and four of the tech leads for teams I work closely with are. (I'm defining "work closely with" as "would not feel terribly awkward inviting over for a barbecue or board games.") If you add people who've founded successful open-source projects or done interesting projects as part of a larger organization, that number grows significantly. The founder of Gallery is the manager of a large team I work closely with, and on that team are the authors of Rhino, Parrot, Pychecker, "Linux Kernel Development" and "Linux in a Nutshell", and probably a few that I don't know of because I don't know everyone's pre-Google background.
- Drbble 14y agoIf you are talking about Gallery the abysmal Android photo viewing app-attempt, I wouldn't lump that in with your list of impressive technical achievements. I hope you are referring to the web album builder or something else.
- nostrademons 14y agoNo, Gallery the web photo album organizer: http://gallery.menalto.com/ http://gallery.menalto.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project To my knowledge, the Android photo viewing app isn't open-source (and I'm kinda surprised that alternatives to some of the default Android apps haven't popped up - the Gallery and Music Player apps really kinda suck.)