Zhiruard Dave (Dave Girouard)

Zhiruard Dave (Dave Girouard)

Leaving Google

The vice president of divisions Google Apps and Google Enterprise Dave Girouard left the post in Google company. It's true. After eight wonderful years spent together with Google I leave this company to steep in own project", the ex-top manager wrote in the blog on March 17, 2012.

Zhiruard directly directed development of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other cloud services. In due time he acted as the initiator of creation of the corporate direction, in particular, of specialized search tools for business and the Chromebooks PC under control of Chrome OS. Its obligations for a part of Google Apps will be undertaken by Sundar Pichai, the senior vice president of divisions of Google Chrome and Google Apps, as regards Google Enterprise – Amit Singh, the vice president of the division of the same name.

The new company of Dave Zhiruard is known a little, actually while there is even no full-fledged website – it is replaced by the page with several lines of the text. As noticed in the blog Zhiruard, recently it was concerned by questions of the choice of a course of life and career development of younger generation. The new company with the eloquent name Upstart will not have relation to business market and "will help to receive financing in exchange for a share from future profit". Investors act as Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and NEA. Start of Upstart should take place within the coming months.

It is necessary to notice that the employees who worked enough time in Google very seldom change employers. However, Dave Zhiruard's example not unique. Quite recently Craig Silversteyn (Craig Silverstein), one of the first staff of Google, passed into Khan Academy. Anyway, on pages of the blog Zhiruard hotly thanked for joint fruitful work of founders of Google of Sergey Brin, both the chief executive Larry Page, and the former chief executive Eric Schmidt.