Print
Email
Print Edition Stories
MHT's Galen Moore: Honoring innovation in New England
Following the Clean Energy Council Fellows
MHT's Galen Moore: Hiring trends and opportunities
Google Inc. has snapped up Don Dodge, Microsoft Corp.’s former startup man-about-town, less than two weeks after the Redmond, Wash.-based software company let go its former evangelist to the entrepreneurial community, in companywide staff cuts that affected about 40 Massachusetts employees.
Dodge, who had been based in Massachusetts with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), will move to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., where he will take the title of developer advocate, and report directly to head of developer relations Michael Winton.
In addition to evangelizing Google applications to the developer community, he will work to source deal flow for Google Ventures, the web search company’s venture capital investing arm, Dodge said today. The company has asked him to spend his ’20-percent time’ — the free time it typically grants to employees for outside projects — working with Google Ventures investors Rich Miner, based in Cambridge, and Bill Maris, based in Mountain View.
Other than that, his new job, which he started today, will be much the same as the old — except that at Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) he will work with companies of all sizes, not just startups, Dodge said.
“This is home for me, so I’ll be back a lot,” he said of Google’s office in Cambridge. “People in Silicon Valley, for years after I left, they thought I still lived there.”
TechCrunch yesterday evening first reported the news of Dodge’s landing at Google.
Comments
If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.
RSS Feeds
