Manu Cornet

Emmanuel "Manu" Cornet (born 21 January 1981) is a French programmer, cartoonist, writer and musician.[2][3] Born in Paris, he studied at the École alsacienne and at the École normale supérieure. Cornet worked at Google[4] from 2007 until 2021.

Manu Cornet
Born (1981-01-21) 21 January 1981
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationPhysics, Mathematics
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure[1]
Occupations
  • Software Engineer
  • Musician
  • Cartoonist
  • Writer
Years activeLate 2000s–present
Websitema.nu
"Mobile Relationship" by Manu Cornet
"Life of a software engineer" by Manu Cornet

Career

Cornet worked at Google[4] from 2007 until 2021. He joined Twitter in 2021, but said he had been laid off in 2022 shortly after Elon Musk's takeover of the company.[5][6]

Cartoonist

Cornet is known for his cartoons,[7] some of which were published in The New York Times,[8] Der Spiegel,[9] Mashable, Daring Fireball and Business Insider.

His "Organizational Charts" cartoon was quoted by Satya Nadella on the first page of his 2017 book, Hit Refresh, as one of the motivations making him want to renew Microsoft's culture.

Writer

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. It is about his experiences working for Google.

Publications
  • Cornet, Manu (2021). Goomics, vol. 2. ISBN 978-1-95262900-6.
  • Cornet, Manu (2019). Graphic Nobel vol. 1, 1901-1910. ISBN 978-0-98852386-9.
  • Cornet, Manu (2018). Goomics, vol. 1. ISBN 978-0-98852384-5.
  • Cornet, Manu (2012). The Crab and the Lamb. ISBN 978-0-98852383-8.

References
  1. Élèves ENS
  2. Album published under a Creative Commons license
  3. "Profile". Archived from the original on 2020-05-17. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
  4. Interview in the official Gmail blog
  5. Tabahriti, Sam (3 November 2022). "A Twitter software engineer who created cartoons poking fun at his own company says he was fired because he's a 'troublemaker'". MSN.
  6. Manu Cornet (1 November 2022). "Bye Twitter". Manu Cornet.
  7. Bonkers World
  8. First page of the New York Times Business Section on July 12th, 2013
  9. Online article in Der Spiegel


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