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Lucky Luciano

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5. You kidding me? The perks at Google are hard to pass up.

Reply to GeorgeGist (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 09:52 PM

Jan 2014

If they were better risk takers (read: probably don't have a family yet or have a few bucks squirreled away), then they would probably try to be the next great disruptive thing - in lieu of that, they can settle on a very good upper middle class (or better) lifestyle and a comfortable work environment where they get to work on a lot of cool highly technical projects (which is something they are passionate for) as well as having the prestige of working for Google. Why would someone say no to that?

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