Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra (born 14 June 1969) is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for

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until 24 April 2014. Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at

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Career

Gundotra joined

in 1991 and eventually became

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of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's

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s and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications. Gundotra joined

in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay due to a Microsoft employee

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. His responsibilities as Vice-President of Social included Google's social networking and identity service,

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. He is widely believed to be the man behind

, and was responsible for the controversial removal of social features from Google Reader. Apart from Google+, he is widely credited for his contributions to early versions of the mobile version of

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, making advertising videos for Mercedes, and Google I/O. On 24 April 2014, Gundotra announced his resignation from Google after almost 7 years of service. About a year later, accusations were made about his

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of at least one employee at Google. On 11 November 2015, Vic Gundotra announced on his Google+ profile that he was joining AliveCor as its CEO. On 17 January 2019 it was reported that he was stepping down from AliveCor for personal reasons.

Awards and recognition

In 2003, Gundotra was named in the

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TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, for his contribution to Microsoft's .NET Framework.

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