Manu Cornet
Emmanuel Cornet (born 21 January 1981) is a French software engineer, freelance cartoonist, writer and musician who worked at Google and Twitter from 2007 until 2021.
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- Name
- Manu Cornet
- Birth Name
- Emmanuel Cornet
- Born
- 21 January 1981
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Education
- École alsacienne Lycée Saint-Louis
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- writer · musician · programmer
- Languages
- French
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Manu Cornet naquit en 1981.
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• Name — Manu Cornet • Birth Name — Emmanuel Cornet • Born — 21 January 1981 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Employer — Google Twitter • Years Active — Late 2000s–present • Education — École alsacienne Lycée Saint-Louis • Alma Mater — École normale supérieure • Illustration — "Organizational Charts" by Manu Cornet • Illustration — "Mobile Relationship" by Manu Cornet • Illustration — "Life of a software engineer" by Manu Cornet
Education
Education
Born in Paris, Cornet was educated at the École alsacienne and the Lycée Saint-Louis before studying Informatics, Physics and Maths at the École normale supérieure.
Career
Career
Cornet worked at Google from 2007 until 2021. He joined Twitter in 2021, but said he had been laid off in 2022 shortly after the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.
Cartoonist
Cartoonist
Cornet is known for his cartoons, some of which were published in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Mashable, Daring Fireball and Business Insider. His "Organizational Charts" cartoon was quoted by Satya Nadella on the first page of his book, Hit Refresh, as one of the motivations making him want to change the organizational culture at Microsoft.
Publications
Cornet wrote The Crab and the Lamb, edited by Geneviève Jurgensen and translated into English by Adriana Hunter. It is the first-person account of Cornet's experience with cancer diagnosis and treatment. His second book, Goomics, was published in 2018 and is about his experiences working for Google. His publications include: • Goomics, volume 1 & 2 • Graphic Nobel, volume 1 & 2 • The Crab and the Lamb
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- 1.Cornet, Manu. Distance temps Album published under a Creative Commons license. jamendo.com. 2003.
- 2.Cornet, Manu. Profile. ma.nu. 2020.
- 3.Chen, Kathleen. Faces of Gmail: Manu Cornet. gmailblog.blogspot.com. 2011.
- 4.LinkedIn page
- 5.Anon. Liste des élèves - classés par discipline. eleves.ens.fr. 2004.
- 6.Tabahriti, Sam. A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'. msn.com. 3 November 2022.
- 7.Cornet, Manu. Bye Twitter. ma.nu. 1 November 2022.
- 8.Cornet, Manu. Bonkers World. bonkersworld.net. 2015.
- 9.Whigfield, Nick. Microsoft Overhauls, the Apple Way. The New York Times. 2013.
- 10.First page of the New York Times Business Section on July 12th, 2013.
- 11.Yahoo führt Forced Rankings ein, Microsoft schafft sie ab. spiegel.de. 13 November 2013.
- 12.Tabahriti, Sam. A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'. businessinsider.com. 2022.
- 13.Nadella, Satya. Hit Refresh. HarperCollins. 2017. 9780062652508.
- 14.Cornet, Manu. Goomics, vol. 1. Manu Cornet. 2018. 978-0-98852384-5.
- 15.Cornet, Manu. Goomics, vol. 2. 2021. 978-1-95262900-6.
- 16.Cornet, Manu. Graphic Nobel: Nobel prizes in physics explained with cartoons 1901 - 1910. Manu Cornet. 2019. 978-0-98852386-9.
- 17.Cornet, Manu. Graphic Nobel: Nobel prizes in physics explained with cartoons 1911 - 1920. 2023. 978-1-952629-01-3.
- 18.Cornet, Manu. The Crab and the Lamb. Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp. 2012. 978-0-98852383-8.
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