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A BoomTown Bier-Trinken Visit to the Gourmet Haus Staudt, Home of iPhonegate! (Can You Say Oktoberfest in April?)

in News on April 27, 2010 at 5:33 am PT

When BoomTown was kibitzing with SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg about where to meet up this week for a chat to catch up, we decided to forgo the obvious and instead choose the complete Silicon Valley cliche of the moment. Destination: Redwood City and the now-infamous Gourmet Haus Staudt. As in, the the beer garden behind the German grocery store where the iPhone 4G prototype was snatched from a birthday-celebrating Apple engineer by person still unknown and sold to the now-police-shookdown Gizmodo gadget site. Here’s our Gemütlichkeit travelogue!

Google Says Google’s Perks Are Overrated, and Belt-Tightening Is Underrated

in Media on October 7, 2009 at 12:41 pm PT

Hey Googlers! All those perks the company is famous for: The great food, the high-end daycare, the fancy bathrooms? Overrated, your bosses say. So is the dream of getting insanely wealthy at your job. Instead, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said today, you ought to be happy to work at Google…because it’s Google.
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