Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — which posted the video this week on YouTube — today made the video of the event private.
It happens all the time. Almost everyone who starts a new tech company has worked in a different one.
Yes, most people have previously held jobs.
And sometimes Google sues former employees.
Uh, that guy actually did steal literal IP. Uber was founded by an asshole who didn’t care about breaking the law.