Why Ex-Employees Are Glad They Sold Google
Written by Francine Kizner of Entrepreneur.com
Free gourmet meals, on-site medical care, laundry facilities in the office and a cool company culture complete with lava lamps, pets and ping pong tables, have made Google (GOOG Quote) an attractive employer.
But as it's grown from a small, entrepreneurial operation to a corporate entity, buying out smaller tech companies and expanding around the globe, some of its more independent-minded employees have struck out on their own.
Approximately Google's 300th employee, Dan Daugherty started in the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex in 2002 working on AdWords, but soon left for Colorado, where he launched the Denver sales and operations office. He spent three years there working with Fortune 500 accounts and started investing in real estate on the side....
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