Why I Left My 6 Figure Job at Google and What For

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That was an interesting read. For the author: what are you doing now? Did you do a blockchain startup?

I share some of your inside Google views. I worked as a contractor there, on a passion interest of mine (knowledge graphs and general knowledge management). On one hand I was very, very grateful for the experience. On the other hand, I was also very happy to leave and go back to my own thing (a lot of personal research, some consulting and writing).

I'm currently exploring and looking for real world problems that blockchain can solve and use that as my source of inspiration for startup ideas. The systems in the privileged western world already in place work so well (especially in Switzerland) that it almost looks like we don't really need something better, but go to other parts of the world and you'll see that things are not so good for other people. Especially the unbanked and the undocumented. I expect that my experience in Asia will provide me with the necessary insight to come up with something useful.

I know virtually nobody at Google who are of the same opinion, so it's a bit refreshing to see other people who share my inside Google views.

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