{"id":1017820,"date":"2026-06-30T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017820"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:19:06","slug":"google-employee-earning-nearly-1-million-a-year-quits-says-i-felt-some-fomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/google-employee-earning-nearly-1-million-a-year-quits-says-i-felt-some-fomo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google employee earning nearly $1 million a year quits, says &#8216;I felt some FOMO&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google employee who earned almost $1 million in a year has explained why he chose to leave the technology giant and start his own artificial intelligence (AI) company.<\/p>\n<p>In an as-told-to essay published by Business Insider, 41-year-old Yousuf Imran, a former account executive from the San Francisco Bay Area, said he was well paid at Google but felt &#8220;FOMO (Fear of missing out)&#8221; as AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic began offering stock packages that could be &#8220;life-changing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google employee who earned almost $1 million in a year has explained why he chose to leave the technology giant and start his own artificial intelligence (AI) company. In an as-told-to essay published by Business Insider, 41-year-old Yousuf Imran, a former account executive from the San Francisco Bay Area, said he was well paid at Google but felt &#8220;FOMO (Fear of missing out)&#8221; as AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic began offering stock packages that could be &#8220;life-changing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017821,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017820\/revisions\/1017821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}