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Patrick Pichette (Google CFO) story: Yep, it's awesome. But uh, he's rich.
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Patrick Pichette (Google CFO) story: Yep, it's awesome. But uh, he's rich.

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Ted Bauer
Mar 11, 2015
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This Patrick Pichette story (he was the CFO of Google) is going a little bit viral today. Here's the basic rundown. He retired from a plum job way before you'd think an average American male in such a job would retire, and here's why he did it (in this pull quote, "Tamar" is his wife):

And Tamar out of the blue said “Hey, why don’t we just keep on going”…

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