I read an article on techcrunch.com today discussing the departure of Google employees to go work at VMware. Apparently, Derek Collision tweeted today that he’d be leaving Google after five years in their service. He was heading, of course, to go work with “Vadim and Mark Lucovsky for a bit at VMware”. Vadim Spivak and Lucovsky are two other former Google higher-ups who left for more virtualized pastures. As the article points out, it’s not uncommon for employees to leave a stable-but-somewhat-stale environment to go work for a budding start-up, where ideas are fresh and potential untapped. But VMware has been around for a number of years now. Why would established employees such as these leave Google for anything other than an exciting new start-up, the author of the techchrunch.com article wonders?...