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CNBC that 4chan founder Chris Poole no longer works at Google. Google hired Poole &nbsp;to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+. Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest. It sounds like Poole never found a solid landing spot at Google, as he had three different positions during his five years.Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like&nbsp;, , and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, &nbsp;memes and the alt-right. The site gave rise to the Internet hacktivist group &nbsp;and is often used as a dumping ground for various hacks like the . Poole sold 4chan back in 2015, a year before joining Google.Back when Poole was hired, Google's fear of Facebook gave it an unhinged obsession with social media, but nobody at Google&nbsp;&nbsp;how social media worked. Poole's hiring at the company was&nbsp;&nbsp;but high-ranking Google+ execs the move.&nbsp;4chan is a social site with millions of monthly visitors, and that made Poole one of the company's few experienced social experts when he arrived.Google+ launched in 2011 and&nbsp; two years after Poole's arrival, so it doesn't seem like the hiring made much of an impact. After Google+, Poole apparently joined Google's experimental "" group and eventually moved on to be a product manager for Google Maps.You must to comment.

CNBC that 4chan founder Chris Poole no longer works at Google. Google hired Poole &nbsp;to work on the company's doomed social media project, Google+. Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest. It sounds like Poole never found a solid landing spot at Google, as he had three different positions during his five years.Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more...

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