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When Google moved from its office in Mountain View to its first campus,

it was the Silicon Graphics campus. So Silicon

Graphics was once a very great company that was big enough to have a campus but had done so poorly that at some point

they were selling their campus to another company.

Brat Taylor, he was there at this time when Google was ascending to the pantheon of big tech companies.

In fact, he was integral to the creation of Google Maps.

It was the first of many world-changing companies he's been a part of.

Later, he'd be named Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, and work in another office building with a storied Silicon Valley past.

When Facebook went from having a building in Palo Alto to having a campus, it was Sun Microsystems on the campus.

So I had this experience so early on in my career

of being at these newfangled companies

that basically took over the carcass of a once great technology company that at one point

was at the top of the stock market and big enough to these huge campuses.

And I just realized that the half life of big technology companies is not as long as we often think. You gotta have incredible talent at every position.

There are fires burning when you're going home.

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