Chade-Meng Tan

[2] Search Inside Yourself is also the title of Meng's 2014 self-help book, which became a New York Times bestseller and was endorsed by President Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama.

The classes proved extremely successful at Google, which led Meng to write a best-selling book, “Search Inside Yourself”.

These successes (outside of his engineering role) led him to work for two years as the Head of Personal Growth and to chair non-profit “Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute” (SIYLI, pronounced “silly”), to bring the same popular Google class to others.

[8] In 2018, Meng stepped down from the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at the board's request following the results of a third-party investigation citing “inappropriate behavior” prior to the founding of SIYLI.

[9][10] Meng started collecting celebrity photographs when Jimmy Carter and Al Gore visited the Google campus.