On: Uber Hires Former Google Search Chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering

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Is he worth billions?

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He's clearly worth enough to not have to work for anyone, many times over.

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Yeah, joining Google before IPO would be pretty lucrative.

What I don't understand is the multitude of students who STILL want to join Google, even though they will likely be munging data from one format to another, for years.