Close to the Vest - The search giant's young millionaires are cashing in and checking out

"Our mission is not to make Google as big as possible; it is to organize the world's information," says Laszlo Bock, vice president of people operations at Google. "If we seed the next 200 great startups, that's no bad thing."

I never looked at it this way. If Google is the catalyst of many successful startups in the future, that's also a way to leave an overall positive impact on the world. A surprisingly grown-up way of looking at things.

I guess now's a good time if you are looking to join a startup. Just hang outside the googleplex handing out resumes to the guys driving the nicest cars who are leaving the earliest.