Googlers Jumping Ship: Can Google Stop the Mutiny?

Justin Rosenstein, Ethan Beard and Sheryl Sandberg are just a few huge named Googlers jumping ship and there is little recruiters say Google can do to help the situation. They're just not happy with their experienced chefs and cost free lunches.

An Atlantic based recruiter, Eric Jaquith who has done contract work for Google says that, " the idea of recruiting is to go after successful companies, therefore a company wanting the type of success Google has will hire from Google. Googlers should have signs on their heads."

In the beginning, most people were intelligent, inquisitive and wanted to solve challenging problems. Not for a salary, which is a good thing as Google has earned a reputation for being pretty cheap. Jaquith states that exodus was obviously going to happen regardless of the pay because most Googlers lose interest under four or five year plans and look for new challenges.

The gain from stock options certainly did not hurt the Googlepreneurs and probably gave them the financial support to go on their own. This can be proven from a simple "ex-Googler " search which revealed these listed below and many more.

• Vanessa Fox left Google for real estate search site Zillow.
• Jason Liebman, Sanjay Raman and Daniel Blackman co-founded HowCast, a network of "how to" videos. The company has apparently raised $8 million in funding.
• Louis Monier, Anna Patterson, Russell Power are working on a search service called Cuill (pronounced "cool") -- it's said to index the web more economically than Google. Uses a web crawler called "twiceler."
• Gokul Rajaram, the "Godfather of AdSense," is working on a stealth startup. Can't talk about it now, but he says he can in the third quarter.
• Steffen Mueller started a "search engine community" called Topicle.
• Dan Daugherty is heading RentBits, a real estate rental site. He's got support from fellow ex-Googler Tim Moynihan, who is COO of the site.