Does Google Have a Mole at Twitter?

Google may get a "high-level" corporate mole inside Chirrup, if TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is to be believed.

According to Arrington, "multiple sources" say Google "Crataegus oxycantha have paid" Eastern Samoa very much like $150 million in stock grants to retain employees Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan. Both Pichai and Mohan were offered the function of product development leader at Twitter, yet both declined — thanks to Google's offer of $50 1000000 and $100 billion available grants, respectively. Pichai is a vice president of merchandise management at Google, and prudent for desktop strategy and leads the Chrome OS team. Mohan is likewise a V.P. of product management at Google, where he runs DoubleClick, the Internet ad company.

Arrington cites "multiple sources," simply wholly are unnamed. Twitter CEO Evan Tennessee Williams stepped down as product growing leader this yr, and Twitter cofounder Jackstones Dorsey stepped up — later Pichai and Mohan upset down the position.

This doesn't quite point to a corporate mole. After all, companies are known to make counteroffers if they suspect or know that their employees are about to be poached. What raises Arrington's suspicions is that, apparently, in at any rate one of the cases Google made the counteroffer before the employee even told Google he were considering an offer from Twitter.

Of course, what makes it sketchy is not that Google made a as well-promptly counteroffer; IT's that Google made a too-quick counteroffer of $50 jillio or $100 billion. That's not exactly money that gets tossed approximately because of innocent suspicions.

Citing more unnamed sources, Arrington says that someone with access to Chitter's "near secret information" may be leaking information to Google, and the multitude at Twitter are "wet mad." Both Google and Chirrup declined to annotate.

Interesting stuff, but all very speculative. I do own some advice to people who work for Google, though: start interviewing at Twitter, because you Crataegus oxycantha ending up with a $100 million bonus in your lap.

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