This Xoogler Might Be the Next Bill Gates

Former Googlers make ever-widening waves across Silicon Valley
By Lev Weinstein,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 4, 2008 2:40 AM CDT
This Xoogler Might Be the Next Bill Gates
Google recently set up its own venture-capital arm, at least in part to try to get a piece of the big ideas coming from company alumni.   (Getty Images)

In the past few years, Google has lost some serious firepower to the startup frontier, Luke Dittrich writes in Esquire. With self-styled Xooglers  providing the brain power not only for two dozen or so startups, but for the venture-capital firms that fund them, it’s likely “the next big thing to come out of Google won't come out of Google at all.”

Google manages to retain a better-than-average percentage of employees, but the pedigree of the Xooglers—the creator of Gmail, or intance, and the guys who thought of buying YouTube—make them a force to be reckoned with. So much, in fact, that the company recently announced plans to head up its own venture-capital arm to make some coin off the bleeding. (More Google stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X