The rise and fall of Andy Rubin, the former Google executive accused of sexual misconduct whose new startup, Essential, just shut down for good
The inventor of Android — the OS used by nearlyof world's smartphones — has had a 30-year career in software engineering in Silicon Valley. His life seemed to be on track as one of the heroes of the modern tech world until a set of explosive news reports from 2017 to 2019 characterized Rubin as an antagonist in the #MeToo movement.
As the allegations about Rubin have continued to impact him, Google, and the tech industry more broadly, Rubin's business endeavors have taken a hit as well: Essential, the consumer tech company he founded after leaving Google,Here's how Rubin's career got started, and everything that's happened since.
Andy Rubin was raised in Chappaqua, New York and attended Horace Greeley High School, graduating in 1981.
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