Google’s first-hire and the third employee of the (now) Internet giant is leaving to be a part of Khan Academy (the not-for-profit, on-line educational organization). Said entity has been backed by the Gates’ Foundation (as a part of a continuing movement for making learning more universally accessible: an admirable pursuit that will hopefully continue to spur reform within this area throughout the future).
Let’s hope that they’ll be no ‘conflict of interest’ given the bitter partiality between Microsoft and Google over the past several years as talent is best utilized removed from a sense of partisanship…
(Source) CNET: http://goo.gl/LLr2k