Ex­o­dus of Ex-Googlers at Sil­i­con Val­ley's sex­i­est biotech star­tups

A cu­ri­ous num­ber of high pro­file ex-Googlers are bail­ing from Sil­i­con Val­ley’s sex­i­est biotech star­tups, with many end­ing up in de­cid­ed­ly more tra­di­tion­al bio­phar­ma roles.

Just this morn­ing, Cal­i­co, the stealthy Google start­up delv­ing in­to the ag­ing process, lost in­dus­try gu­ru Hal Bar­ron. The guy is best known for his role at Genen­tech, where he helped change the face of can­cer drug de­vel­op­ment as CMO. Back in 2013, he joined the su­per-se­cre­tive Cal­i­co as pres­i­dent of R&D. But now Bar­ron is ab­di­cat­ing start­up life — and its as­so­ci­at­ed glam — as the new head of R&D at Glax­o­SmithK­line.

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