Ah so it was luck that so many exceptional people ended up at Google [Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Sun, AWS, Apple, et al] at a similar time. As opposed to it bei

Ah so it was luck that so many exceptional people ended up at Google [Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Sun, AWS, Apple, et al] at a similar time. As opposed to it being obvious that very interesting things, opportunities, were happening at those companies. With word spreading throughout the industry. Along with talent flight into said companies, so as to pursue said opportunities along with other talent. Employees in tech typically see these things happening, it's not a big secret. You can in fact do a lot better than blind dart throwing.