Google holding this guy from moving to twitter?

Twitter tried to hire a Google product VP named Sundar Pichai, but failed after Google gave Pichai a big raise, Liz Gannes reports.

Pichai runs the team behind Chrome and Chrome OS.
Google is constantly fending off other Valley companies trying to poach its talented engineers and executives.
Mostly we've heard about a talent war between Google and Facebook. Facebook keeps telling recruits the compan wants to be worth $1 trillion some day, and Google keeps throwing cash at its people, hoping they'll stay.

One time, Google gave one of its engineers $6 million so she wouldn't bolt for Mark Zuckerberg's company.
Is that how much Sundar got paid to stay?
Google's $6 million woman made The Silicon Valley 100 – our list of the 100 people who did the coolest things in Silicon Valley this year.

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