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Andy Rubin

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Andy Rubin, formally Andrew E. Rubin, is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, born in 1963. He founded Danger Inc. in 1999 and left in 2003, and then founded Android Inc., which Google acquired in 2005. Rubin served as a Google vice president for nine years and led its efforts to create and promote the Android operating system for mobile phones and other devices. After leaving Google in 2014 he co-founded and led the venture capital firm Playground Global, and in 2019 he was inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame.

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1963 1
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Mobile Computing, Fields
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Android, Systems
Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): Android
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United States

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is an American computer programmer
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born March 13, 1963
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created in 2008 by Andy Rubin
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