What percentage of your fellow Googlers are ex-startup-founders?
Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find more interesting are found in higher density in startups than BigCo's. ymmv.
Yes, there are interesting (and uninteresting) people everywhere. The people I personally find more interesting are found in higher density in startups than BigCo's. ymmv.
If you add people who've founded successful open-source projects or done interesting projects as part of a larger organization, that number grows significantly. The founder of Gallery is the manager of a large team I work closely with, and on that team are the authors of Rhino, Parrot, Pychecker, "Linux Kernel Development" and "Linux in a Nutshell", and probably a few that I don't know of because I don't know everyone's pre-Google background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_Project
To my knowledge, the Android photo viewing app isn't open-source (and I'm kinda surprised that alternatives to some of the default Android apps haven't popped up - the Gallery and Music Player apps really kinda suck.)