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- Andy Rubin is the creator of Android and a former Google executive.
- Rubin’s career seemed to be on track — software engineering in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, founding Android, being a top dog at Google for a decade — until he was let go from Google after a sexual misconduct investigation, according to multiple news reports.
- Rubin has been accused of having inappropriate relations with a subordinate, of allegedly coercing a woman into oral sex (an allegation that Rubin denies).
- And new, unsealed court documents from a suit filed by his estranged ex-wife allege he ran what was described as a "sex ring."
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Andy Rubin’s fall from grace in the tech world has dragged out over two years.
The inventor of Android — the OS used by nearly 87% of 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.
Rubin’s spokesperson calls these reports mischaracterizations, telling Business Insider:
"Much of the recent media coverage mischaracterized Andy’s departure from Google and parroted fictional claims made about Andy by his ex-wife in their contentious divorce dispute. He looks forward to telling his story someday," the spokesperson said.
Read on for the rise and fall of "Android Andy."
Andy Rubin was raised in Chappaqua, New York and attended Horace Greeley High School, graduating in 1981.
Source: International Business Times
He attended Utica College in New York, where he studied computer science, and graduated in 1986.
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Source: International Business Times
Rubin’s first job out of college was software engineering, specializing in robotics, at Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy in Thornwood, New York (1986-1988).
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