I was curious myself so I followed his advice and googled him.

Turns out, he works for google. http://www.linkedin.com/in/apenwarr

Which makes this line all the more hilarious.

"But it's not really a secret; you can probably figure it out if you bing around a bit for my name."

I thought the bing was the hint and they worked at Microsoft.

I thought that, too, but that didn't line up with the part about hiring smart people.

Google. I used to work with the author