Candice Bryant Leaves Google After 4 Years to Build AI Products and Consulting Business
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Updated · Business Insider · Jul 4
Candice Bryant Leaves Google After 4 Years to Build AI Products and Consulting Business
1 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Jul 4
Summary
October 2025 marked Bryant’s exit from Google, where the former internal communications manager said she left to focus full-time on independent consulting, angel investing, a weekly AI newsletter and AI product building.
Google’s AI boom helped drive that decision: Bryant said tools such as NotebookLM convinced her the bigger gap was not policy but public understanding, and that she could do more outside the company.
Cello, an app she launched earlier this year, gives users daily prompts to explore practical uses of AI; Bryant said she already plans a second app.
Bryant joined Google in 2021 after about 16 years at the CIA, where she worked first as a political analyst and later in communications, framing her career as a series of opportunity-driven shifts.