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I was surprised she didn't have some kind of non-compete with Google, but they are illegal/unenforceable in CA, right? (I'm on the East Coast so pardon my lack
by stevencorona 14y ago
I was surprised she didn't have some kind of non-compete with Google, but they are illegal/unenforceable in CA, right? (I'm on the East Coast so pardon my lack of knowledge).
- saraid216 14y agoWikipedia agrees with your memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
- samstave 14y agoWhat if Sergei and Larry WANT her to go to Yahoo. Not to "compete" but to build it out in some other way, to build it as a service that google can then acquire. She can go there to experiment on ideas that maybe even google had internally but couldn't risk to do with google viewers...
- adventureful 14y agoThere has been talk about Google stealing Yahoo back away from Microsoft on an ad deal, so that would also be another reason. It could be worth hundreds of millions per year to land that deal with Yahoo. The legal hurdles are huge though.
- sulife 14y agoYahoo would probably make a lot more $ too because AdCenter is a joke.
- pasbesoin 14y agoMy thoughts ran to whether Google might want (in part) to ensure that credible competition exists/continues. There's been a lot of "monopoly" language and perhaps imminent regulation flying about.
- samstave 14y agoAny way you cut this, Google seems ready to benefit from this coup.
- sabat 14y agoIt wouldn't surprise me at all if Sergei and Larry wanted her gone, period. She has had a lackluster career at Google, and they may have gladly watched her move out of the way.
- caycep 14y agohmm....wait a minute...being passed over for SVP...going to yahoo....SHE'S THEIR NEW LUCA BRASI!!!
- rg 14y agoNon-competes are totally unenforceable in CA as a condition of employment. If you sell your startup to an acquirer, the contract can include a non-compete subject to fairly strict conditions of reasonableness.