This happened at a time when Google was bleeding top management talent to Facebook and Twitter. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/06/google-said-to-have-high-leve

This happened at a time when Google was bleeding top management talent to Facebook and Twitter. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/06/google-said-to-have-high-level-mole-at-twitter-makes-massive-counteroffers-to-retain-employees/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/06/google-said-to-have-high-le... Sundar Pichai was also offered $50M. As things have settled down, I doubt if this would happen again, at least anytime soon.