An actual offer? No, but I never let things get that far. But I have turned down solicitations from Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon (never heard anything from Facebook though).<p>Why? Well multiple reasons. For Amazon (and to some extent, Microsoft) - I don't want to live in the Pacific Northwest. Nothing against the area, it looks beautiful, but I live for warm weather.<p>For Microsoft, in addition to location, I'm an Open Source ideologue, consider Microsoft to the The Evil Empire, and want nothing to do with them.<p>For Apple, they're another Evil Empire pitching closed-source, locked-down, proprietary products that I want nothing to do with.<p>For Google, it was much simpler: By the time I heard from them, I was well into starting Fogbeam Labs, and that's my focus right now. I still work a "regular job" during the day, but my overriding passion is to get this company off the ground and make a go of it. I don't see going to work for Google as compatible with that. Plus, GOOG seem (from my outsider's perspective) a bit too big and bureaucratic for my tastes at this point. I'm more of a small company person, unless it's the company I'm running.<p>OTOH, myself and one of our other co-founders were talking a few days ago, and we commented that we'd consider an "acquihire" scenario from somebody like Google. So that's one way I might wind up at Google or some other $BIGCORP.