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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin says that Google tried to hire him on an intern’s salary
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted out a photo
of what appeared to be a job offer from Google earlier this
year. -
Many speculated that Google was attempting to hire
Buterin for a secret cryptocurrency project. - Buterin says that a Google representative tried to hire
him at an intern’s salary, most likely because he matched the
company’s recruitment profile.
In May, the founder of cryptocurrency project Etherum, Vitalik
Buterin,
asked on Twitter if he should quit ethereum to work for
Google.
The tweet contained what appeared to be a job offer from Google
that read: “I hope you are doing well and enjoying the
weekend! Google make sense for you now or in the near
future.”
Buterin’s tweet was followed by increasing speculation that
Google might be interested in recruiting the 24-year-old founder
for a secret cryptocurrency project.
It turns out, however, that this wasn’t exactly the case.
At a recent fireside chat at an event in San Francisco,
Forbes reported that Buterin said Google did reach out
to him, but that it wasn’t for a high-profile position.
“I hope we all realize that this was a joke. Some random HR
person from Google emailed me, most likely because some machine
learning algorithm analyzed my GitHub and saw that I had some
high score in the international Olympiad,”
Buterin said. “Apparently, I fit the blueprints as a great
candidate to hire at an intern salary.”
While Google does pay its interns comparatively well, it’s
unlikely that it would have been a compelling offer for Buterin,
whose current net worth is thought to be between $100 million to
$200 million.
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