Google's newest hire is coming from a very unlikely place: 4Chan. Chris Poole—AKA "moot"—the founder of the controversial anonymous message board, has joined Google. Poole posted the announcement on his blog:
Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google.
When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems.
I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.
Poole doesn't explicitly say which part of Google he'll be joining, but he did mention "building online communities," which suggests he's joining the Google+ team. Bradley Horowitz, the head of Google+, also announced Poole's hiring—first on Twitter, of course—further pointing to a new G+ hire. Poole announced his retirement from running 4Chan just over a year ago.
In the past, Poole has given talks about identity on the Internet, which criticized Google (and Facebook) for their user identification policies. Poole disagreed with the push for a universal, real-life identity system, saying "consolidating identity makes us more simple than we really, truly are." Poole continued "Facebook and Google do identity wrong. Twitter does it better. I want to think about what the world would be like when we do it right."
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