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Justin Poehnelt was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI, which went viral and gained thousands of GitHub stars and users.
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Justin Poehnelt (@JPoehnelt): Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.
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