Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant’s most profitable ventures has left to start his own company.
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Whatever venture he pursues, he has the blessings of top Google (GOOG) brass Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin. Product management vice president Susan Wojcicki honored him with a large plaque signed by a few hundred Googlers at his farewell party at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., two weeks ago.
zjacob
12:32 am on Nov 21, 2007 (gmt 0)
At the end of the day, according to the Aussie article below, it seems that Gokul Rajaram could have just been a product manager whose team was responsible for integrating the Adsense technology developed by Rex Wong and his company Applied Semantics, which Google bought in 2003.
just a project manager... that grew the department into a monster. I think that takes some real talent, and his $50M take is a good indicator that he's more than just your ordinary project manager... he's SUPER PM! :)
ann
9:35 am on Nov 22, 2007 (gmt 0)
Maybe he's joining PowerSet.
(ducking and weaving)
Ann
edaindia
2:07 pm on Nov 24, 2007 (gmt 0)
Farewell party! What's this? no one threw a chair :)
hydn79
8:51 pm on Nov 30, 2007 (gmt 0)
Is it just me or since he left google CTR's and eCPM's have gone DOWN!
normanp
10:41 am on Dec 5, 2007 (gmt 0)
Does anyone have a clue what this guy is gonna do next? Has he revealed it anywhere?
