They were really going after all the legends. Google hired Guido van Rossum around the same time. I worked down the hall from Rob Pike, they had already hired

They were really going after all the legends. Google hired Guido van Rossum around the same time. I worked down the hall from Rob Pike, they had already hired Peter Weinberger (the w from `awk`), and I shared a 4-person office with Gren Stein, who was then director of the Apache Software Foundation.