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I suspect that Andy is not in fact staying on at Google but instead this is a golden parachute in which he will pretend to stick around as "a consultant to the
by outside1234 14y ago
I suspect that Andy is not in fact staying on at Google but instead this is a golden parachute in which he will pretend to stick around as "a consultant to the CEO" before leaving.
- eitally 14y agoIt could be, or he could be moving into a hardware role at Motorola Mobility. <shrug>
- outside1234 14y agoCould be. Would be a great pick to drive Glass. Or build robots.
- snowwrestler 14y agoSeems to me that if he were moving to head another high-profile project at Google, it would have been part of this announcement.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoI was under the impression that Sergey was heading Glass.
- Mahn 14y agoActually Babak Parviz (the original inventor) is leading the project, which I suppose reports directly to Sergey (https://plus.google.com/100149980664588993669/about https://plus.google.com/100149980664588993669/about)
- recuter 14y agoI never really understood this sort of thing. Why would he stick around and do nothing? To "save face"? And if he is not being useful why do they want him around or play along?
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoThey stick around because they have a lot of options that are on some sort of cliff-vesting schedule.
- jonhendry 14y agoMight be sort of like a non-compete period. Instead of being contractually bound to not compete for a period after leaving a company, which isn't always enforceable, pay the person enough to stick around for a while, perhaps with limited access to information about upcoming products.