On: The death and life of prediction markets at Google

[erik_seaberg]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ayers won a cookoff and made the Googleplex well known for food. Employees brought their kids for dinner. People from other companies angled for invites to lunch. I once realized I was in line behind Vint Cerf (Vice President of Inventing the Internet). Ayers moved on, but I think Building 43 mid-campus still hosts the enormous "Charlie's Café."

For a while, another building was notorious for serving sushi but only admitted their Android developers, because Andy Rubin was paying for that himself.