Vic Gundotra

Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra (born 14 June 1969) is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014.[1][2][3] Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.... On 11 November 2015, Vic Gundotra announced on his Google+ profile[12] that he was joining AliveCor as its CEO.[13] On 17 January, 2019 it was reported that he was stepping down from AliveCor for personal reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra

• Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991... Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement... His responsibilities as Vice-President of Social included Google's social networking and identity service, Google+ (GooglePlus). He is widely believed to be the man behind Google+,[5] and was responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader.

Prior to Google+, he 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.

I think I blame him for (2021-08-28) A Decade And A Half Of Instability The History Of Google Messaging Apps.