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Vic Gundotra, Creator of Google+ Quits After 8 Years

Business Apr 26, 2014

by Anokhi Admin

Vic Gundotra, the brains behind Google+, announces his departure.

On Thursday April 24, Vic Gundotra, the father of Google+, announced that he will be leaving Google after eight years of employment with the company. In his announcement, he says that he is “looking forward to the journey yet to come.”

“I have been incredibly fortunate to work with the amazing people of Google. I don’t believe there is a more talented and passionate collection of people anywhere else,” Gundotra wrote in his announcement earlier this week. “And I’m overwhelmed when I think about the leadership of Larry Page and what he empowered me to do while at Google. From starting Google I/O, to being responsible for all mobile applications, to creating Google+, none of this would have happened without Larry’s encouragement and support.”

Vic Gandotra, Father Of Google+/Technmarketing.com

In a post on Google+, the CEO, Larry Page, noted Gundotra’s many achievements while working with Google, and praised him for having “built Google+ from nothing”. “Vic cut his teeth on our mobile apps and developer relations, turning Google’s disparate efforts into something great… And, walking onto the stage at I/O last year, it was amazing to see developers so excited about Google,”

There are a lot of new changes underway at Google, as it seems that Google+ lost its strongest backer inside the company. Page goes on to say that Google will continue to work hard to build great new experiences for the increasing number of Google+ fans.

Larry Page also emphasized that Google would continue to invest time and money into Google+. Now that the project has lost its main leader, there is a large chance that Google will start to deemphasize Google+, or focus mainly on the Google+ features that have a stronger mainstream appeal, such as Hangouts and photos.

Larry Page, CEO Of Google/ 9to5google.com

Gundotra has a long history at Google, which he joined in 2007 after 15 years with Microsoft. Before starting up Google+, Gundotra led Google’s mobile and developer relations teams, pushing a range of apps and other mobile initiatives, such as turn-by-turn directions, in the early days of the shift to mobile. Launching Google’s leap into social media was a high-profile post for Gundotra to have achieved, though less glamorous than one would have hoped, Google+ faces an uphill perception battle from its earliest days, with a limited launch in the summer of 2011.

According to the company, as of October 2013, Google+ has 300 million monthly active users of its social stream on web and mobile. 450 million users including Google products that are “Socially enhanced” Google+ has most definitely become a powerful sharing and identification tool for most users and for Google.

It is unclear what he will be doing next, or who will be filling his position at Google.

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Vic Gundotra, Creator of Google+ Quits After 8 Years

by Anokhi Admin

Vic Gundotra, the brains behind Google+, announces his departure.

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