For the Soon-To-Be-Rich at Facebook, Advice from Google's 13th Employee
Steve Schimmel was born into poverty in suburban Chicago, yet by age 32, he was able to retire, having been made unfathomably rich by the initial public offering of Google, where he was employee no. 13. (An analyst by training, Schimmel didn’t have a specific job description at Google but says he instead got to be a “business development renaissance man.”) Last week, Schimmel wrote of his compelling rags-to-riches story in a widely read blog post. Last night, I asked him if we could talk more about his experience of become suddenly wealthy and what advice he could share with the tens, if not hundreds, of Facebook employees who will surely enjoy the same life-altering event, likely next year. Schimmel, who is currently writing a novel and “working on a business plan to change the way Hollywood does business,” shared some thoughts with me just now.
