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Google’s game pioneer moves on to an ed tech startup

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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All empires must come to an end. Google’s head of Google Play games business development, Bob Meese, has left Google after eight years and is taking a job at an education technology startup.

Meese spent eight years at Google, and during that time, Google’s Android operating system became a huge mobile gaming platform rivaling Apple’s iOS. Now he is joining Duolingo, a startup in Pittsburgh, Meese said on his Facebook page.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.