Employee #4: ​Harry Cheung@harrycheung’s nickname at Google was “Spiderman" – he worked on the ‘spiders’ that crawl through the web, looking for new links to index.

He became an angel investor, then co-founded home lending platform Roostify (acquired by CoreLogic last year). pic.twitter.com/KaPVRjGQE7

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #5: Amit Patel

Amit and Gmail creater Paul Buchheit came up with Google’s slogan, “Don’t Be Evil.”

Not much is known about him post-Google — he’s a private person with no public-facing social media accounts. pic.twitter.com/qbREWmKnDU

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #6: Urs Hölzle@uhoelzle started as Google’s first search mechanic. He’s still at Google today.

He was the SVP of Technical Infrastructure until 2023; he’s now a Google Fellow working on the infrastructure powering Google & Google Cloud. pic.twitter.com/3KLA2zTFqD

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #7: Georges Harik@gharik joined Google as a software engineer, eventually becoming a Product Management Director.

Now, he’s the co-founder of hslabs, an open-source AI research lab. He’s also an angel investor in the AI/ML space & continues to advise Google Ventures. pic.twitter.com/xHGCV5woLJ

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #8: Salar Kamangar

Salar led the development of AdWords, and pushed for the acquisition of a 2-year-old streaming site named YouTube.

He’s still at Google/Youtube, in an advisory role. He was Youtube’s CEO from 2010-2014, before Susan Wojcicki (Google employee #14). pic.twitter.com/5zjOqvPDJO

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #9: Omid Kordestani@omidkordestani joined Google as an SVP, leading biz ops from their first dollar to $20B in revenue. He returned in 2014 as Chief Business Officer, before leaving to join Twitter.

Today, he’s a Chairman and Board Member of Pearson and Klarna. pic.twitter.com/VLio8a4FxT

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024

Employee #10: Steve Schimmel@stevesf123 joined Google as a founding business team member. After Google, he “temporarily retired” while angel investing (investments include HireAthena and Crowdise.)

Now, it looks like he’s working on something new in stealth mode. pic.twitter.com/tWnVBj9xDY

— John Kim (@0xjohnkim) October 23, 2024