I once saw a business co-Founder joining a startup from Google, around a decade back. Leaving his 500k Googler salary to be a Founder at a hot startup. He was from Indian origins and an Ivy League MBA.

His first contribution, besides joining with his credentials was to cut down a few cents per hour from what we’ve been paying to a sweatshop some place in India. That was annotating images for us. From somewhat strange biases in the annotated data, it was likely that this sweatshop was employing children.

Incidentally, Google had acquihired that startup.