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

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.