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Some of the earliest employees of Google are leaving the company now that they are Extremely wealthy from stock options that soared in value. One hundred of Google's initial 3000 employees have resigned and are going to law school, helping poor shopkeepers get loans, or merely living the good life. Those departures are a new challenge, and the company has tried to keep the old-timers, each of whom takes a part of the company's institutional knowledge and culture with him or her. Among the 900 millionaires created with Google's initial public offerings were many rank and file employees, and the worth of wealthy employees has risen as Google shares have gone skyward. Those profiled are a chef, a humanitarian, a homebody, an angel, an entrepreneur, a jack-of-all-trades, and a law school student. For instance, Ron Dolin, who was a Google engineer for six years, left partly because the decision was easy. Mr. Dolin says his chances for promotion were limited, and democracy (for consideration of individual ideas) at Google faded as the workforce grew into the thousands. Just as he worked around the clock at Google, he does the same in his law studies at UC Hastings College of the Law. Dolin, who helped develop Google's policy for doing business in China and made sure Google complied with U.S. securities regulations, says he wants to specialize in intellectual property (IP) law after graduation in 2009.
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