alt Hacker NewsIn other words:
All of my stock has finally vested, and I am independently wealthy enough to signal that I'm quitting purely based on my morals, since there's no way anyone could have known Google wasn't some ethical bastion of hope in 2017.
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Yeah, it's wild to be writing a post like this in June 2026. Even if he thought Google was somehow still salvageable, how did he justify staying there after Google immediately bent the knee to Trump with the $1 million bribe a year and a half ago?
Back in 2017, I had this theory that Google was run from the Vatican and the Pope himself was the CEO.
The virtue signal is definitely true.
However its the statement that "Google lost its moral compass" has never really been true.
Its pretty clear at this point that companies solely respond to economic tides, which are governed by what people truly want. And Id argue that people in general have lost their moral compass (in the sense of how they vote, in politics and with their wallet, not what they say)
Maybe he should donate every cent he got through Google and its stock to prove he's serious?
You really haven't ever encountered someone who believed in anything, have you?
there are plenty of people who are financially independent but who don't choose to follow their moral compass.