5 posts and columns on Katie Jacobs Stanton

Ex-Googlers Flock 35 Miles North to Twitter

in Social on August 2, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A significant portion of Twitter employees — something like 13 percent — used to work at Google.
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Is the State Department's Tweeter-in-Chief Headed to Google?

in News on July 23, 2010 at 8:54 am PT

Jared Cohen, who has gained fame as the State Department’s social networking phenom and the youngest member of its policy planning staff, is considering taking a job at Google in a strategic policy role, said several sources close to the situation. Cohen has been in discussions with Google recently about going there, those sources said, although it is not a done deal. In other words, the revolving door between D.C. and Silicon Valley keeps on turning, especially Googlers.

Another Googler Joins the Obama Administration–Now We've Got a Foursome!

in News on February 3, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

It will be like they never left the Googleplex in Silicon Valley if this Washington, D.C., invasion of execs from the search giant keeps up. The fourth new geek in town is Sumit Agarwal, who was head of Google’s mobile product management and has become the deputy assistant secretary of defense for outreach and social media in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. It’s interesting to see so many key appointments in the tech arena going to one company, especially one so immersed now in national and international policy issues.

Obama Gets a Google Vet–But Not for CTO

in Media on January 28, 2009 at 9:12 pm PT

Barack Obama has yet to announce who his chief technology officer will be. But he has hired a Silicon Valley exec for another role: Google product manager Katie Jacobs Stanton will be the new President’s “director of citizen participation,” starting in March, sources tell me.