Now try some brain exercise here. What could possibly be common between a Tim Armstrong, a Marissa Mayer, a Biz Stone and Evan Williams?
As they say "Everyone Googles", so have each of these Google babies.
Today we bring for you a collection of Xooglers or those who transcended to the 'next level' of their careers after a brief stint at Google. Mind you the list is long and indeed baffling!
As coincidentally funny it is but most of the successful start up owners and CEO's of top firms today have at some point or the other been associated with Google in some capacity.
Interestingly, we stumbled upon this list of Google's first serving batch and how many of them have moved ahead. It just makes one wonder, how a stint at Google, for any employee, makes it a gainful experience.
While the trade secrets are not meant to be openly flagged, however, in essence the very grand tag of "Google" on your CV is enough to add weight.
If Google is such a great starting point to a better journey in the social media industry, why then did these people quit? Now that's an important question we should be bothered with. The most apparent reason in most cases was the mismatch of thoughts; the media calls a "fallout". Well the actual reasons remain shrouded as ever.
However what needs to be appreciated is Google's relentless 'efforts' to give the industry the best skilled people. Catch the intented pun!
Of the batch of first 20, sadly only 7 still remain in the team that runs Google. The Old School just got revamped.
Here's the illustrious list of Google graduates who got passed the rites of passage to the social media industry from the best learning institution.
The Original 20 :
1) Larry Page - Co-founder and CEO
2) Sergey Brin - Co-founder and head of 'special projects'
3) Susan Wojcicki - Senior Vice President, Advertising
4) Urs Hölzle - Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure
5) Salar Kamangar -Senior Vice President, YouTube and Video
6) Omid Kordestani -Senior Advisor to Office of the CEO and Founders
7) Joan Braddi - current role unclear, formerly VP of Search Services
8) Marissa Mayer - President and CEO of Yahoo
9) Craig Silverstein - Khan Academy, 'Dean of infrastructure'
10) Georges Harik - Angel investor, advisor to Google Ventures
11) Chris Skarakis -Blip.fm, Entrepreneur, angel investor (VSIG)
12) Harry Cheung - Angel investor (Qwiki, Badgeville)
13) Steve Schimmel -Entrepreneurial advisor and angel investor
14) Heather J. Cairns - Angel investor in women-led companies
15) Amit Patel - Game Developer, Red Blob Games
16) Ray Sidney - Eco-friendly real estate developer,Big George Ventures
17) Kendra DiGirolamo - Driscoll’s, business Analyst
18) Larry Schwimmer
19) Jim Reese
20) Gerald Aigner
Adding on to this list are other Xooglers who are running their own startups or enterprising in their own different ways:
-Tim Armstrong - left Google to become the CEO of AOL.
- Sheryl Sandberg - the former VP of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. Currently is a Board member at Facebook.
- Paul Buchheit - Founder of FriendFeed. He sold his venture to Facebook to become a partner at Y Combinator.
- Bret Taylor - The co-creator of Google Maps is a swift mover. He is the former CEO of FriendFeed as well as the outgoing CTO of Facebook.
- Biz Stone and Evan Williams - These Xooglers co-founded the 140- character platform.
- Dennis Crowley - CEO of Foursquare had a stint with Google after his former firm Dodgeball was taken over by the social media giant.
- Ben Silbermann - Founder of Pinterest can claim his design skills being honed at Google, where he worked as a product designer.
- Kevin Systrom - The brain behind Instagram served in Google for 2 years.
- Jeff Levick - He's a wanderlust soul too. To his credits are stints at AOL and Spotify.
- Scott Hassan - The software developer is credited for founding the eGroup. However he went on to found his own robotics firm, Willow Garage.
- Dave Girouard - The former Google Apps VP to run his startup, Upstart.
- Jonathan Wall and Marc Freed-Finnegan - They are best known for their role in designing the Google Wallet. Currently they run their own company Tappmo.
- Jason Liebman - His leadership role at the head of Howcast is based on his past experience at managing content licensing for YouTube, Google Video and AdSense.
- James Whittaker - Google's former Engineering Director currently works as the Partner Development Manager at rival firm Microsoft.
We sincerely thank Google for its pseudo training boot-camp to nurture such great talents! Google is really the Big Daddy of social media industry.
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