The Company That Everyone Left

The three founders of the startup Beeswax , all of whom are former Google ad executives, recently explained to Business Insider how they each knew it was the right time to quit. Before leaving to start Beeswax, chief technical officer Ram Rengaswamy worked at Google for seven years as a tech lead and software engineer on high-profile projects like Gmail.

The Company That Everyone Left

So someone had already had done the hard work and for me I was just putting things together. It was a matter of "I'm inquisitive, I'm curious, and I'm not learning enough on my job," he said. On top of that, he said at Google it can be hard for your accomplishments to stand out, and it's unlikely you'd get attention from higher-ups like founders Larry Page or Sergey Brin.

More recently, he was a product management executive at AppNexus and Bazaarvoice. He said his decision to leave Google was more based on finding a company culture that would allow him to succeed. And Google is very much an engineering culture, so there's a limit to what you can get done as a businessperson.

Beeswax's chief product officer, Shamim Samadi, worked at Google for nine years, the longest-tenured Googler of the three. His two stints at the company included six years as a lead product manager for advertising. Samadi said Paparo approached him with the idea for Beeswax and immediately became excited at the thought of developing the new ad technology.

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But more importantly, he realized he'd have to leave Google to develop it. And when those two things are there, you make the leap. Get the latest Google stock price here. We have sent you a verification email. This comment will be published once verification is done. Next Story There's a shakeup in Goldman Sachs' trading division - and a year veteran is out. However, the exec left after just four months on the job to spend more time with his family.

He's now a "special advisor" for Uber's AI efforts.

He had joined Uber from Facebook where he was leading international growth. Nina Qi left Uber in July, after two years in corporate development, leaping to Autodesk. Josh Mohrer left Uber in May after five years at the ride-hailing company. He joined the company in March and led its team of more than 50 self-driving car engineers in Pittsburgh as the senior director of engineering for its Advanced Technologies Group.

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