April Drought and the Veil Is Lifted . . .

Whoa. It is embarrassing to consider that I went the entire month of April without a single post. Of course, as the time passes, the pressure to type truly earth-shattering prose mounts until a moment of clarity in which you realize that 1) no one really cares as much about your blog as you do though 2) getting your second email message in a week asking if you are dead is a little spooky.

That said, as I look back at my posting regularity it tends to ebb and flow with inverse proportion to how cool my projects at work are.  Just wrapping up the paperwork on a deal? Posts can be expected. Getting my head around an entirely new space? Best just to catch me next month.

Part of this comes from the fact that for the past two years I have never written here about what I do for a living and for whom I work.  Considering the publicity that my company tends to attract, it was always helpful to just avoid the noise and travel in relative anonymity. I would do a panel or a speech now and then and ask the hosts not to publicize my involvement on the web. Eventually though, this became hard to balance against an increasingly public role in the company.

A couple of months ago I flew down to New Zealand and keynoted a fun symposium on start-ups, venture capital, and tech transfer. The Kiwis are great people and I had a blast mixing it up with them. With press in the room though, it was inevitable that my challenge to the entire country to undertake blogging would make it to print.  Thus started a small wave of exposure that would eventually undo my anonymity.

At the same time, my role here at the company has very distinctly evolved over the last year. I was originally hired as a lawyer and businessperson for data center and connectivity deals. However, those of you who are familiar with my insatiable curiosity and boundless ambition for knowledge and experience can imagine that, within weeks of arriving, I just started to stick my nose into anything where I thought I could help out. Soon, I was helping teams conceive of new products, championing acquisitions,  and doing deals across the company. The people here are incredible mentors and colleagues and work became more fun every day.

It was therefore a great pleasure when we found a fabulous lawyer and some more negotiators to assume many of my old duties here and make a little room in my day for my new role as a Principal in the New Business Development Group here at Google. New Business Development? We cover the full gamut of fresh opportunities for the company to grow. New spaces we should enter? Companies with whom we should partner? Products we are missing? Good teams or individuals who want to come work for us? All this stuff falls onto my plate at some point and makes my job  undoubtedly one of the most rewarding and intriguing in the world.

So, in that light, an  ask from you, the readers. Are you a superstar deal person with a bit of a geeky background? Want to come join Google? Leave me a link to your resume and let me know which of these jobs interests you.

In the meantime, welcome to all the new Microsoft search bots that I am sure this post will attract.

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