Vic Gundotra says Larry Page and Eric Schmidt pushed Android-era developer strategy in 2007
Scobleizer · x · 2026-07-28
Vic Gundotra says Larry Page and Eric Schmidt asked him in 2007 to build a developer effort to win over Google’s platform ecosystem, even before Android was publicly released. He says the team’s mental model was rooted in open source, which later shaped Google I/O’s name and positioning as “Innovation in the Open.”
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