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I quit Google after 18 years on the job. It was scary but I did it well — here's how.

It seemed preposterous for me to ever think about leaving Google. I started there in November 2006, when there were only around 10,000 employees, and became an executive — the director of American ...
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I quit Google after 23 years of watching it go from scrappy startup to global power. 4 questions helped me decide it was time to go.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alana Karen, a 47-year-old ex-Google employee, author, tech leader, and speaker based in Palo Alto, California. It's been edited for length and ...
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I quit Google and ended my path to a US green card to cofound a startup in London. It's a huge risk, but I want to live an exciting life.

A former Google engineer left Silicon Valley to join a London startup accelerator program. He moved after feeling limited at Google and wanting to build his own startup. He says giving up a stable job ...
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I quit Google after 18 years on the job. It was scary but I did it well — here's how.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jenny Wood, a 45-year-old former Google executive who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She left Google in August 2024 and is now a keynote speaker, ...