Career
He was Google employee number 107 and his job title was Jolly Good Fellow. He joined Google in 2000 after working for five years at Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories in Singapore. He officially left Google on October 30th, 2015 as announced on his personal blog.
At Google, he worked for eight years in Engineering on projects such as mobile search.
In these latter roles, he wrote a motivational course and the associated book called Search Inside Yourself has become a New York Times bestseller. Following the success of the book, in 2013, Meng founded a non-profit, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) that brings the Search Inside Yourself program to businesses and to the public.
He started collecting celebrity photographs when Jimmy Carter and First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore visited the Google campus. This became a tradition and he now has a large collection of photographs of his meetings with celebrities at Google.
The nomination was signed by 6 Nobel Laureates.