Recently, Pokemon Go was launched into the market and within 2 days, it has become one of the most viral games. According to a report, it has taken over 'Tinder' in terms of user registrations.
After the acquisition of the Keyhole, he served many years as the Vice President of Product Management for Google's "Geo" division i.e (Google Earth, Google Maps, Local, StreetView, SketchUp, and Panoramio).
Then in 2010, he co-founded a small internal startup at Google known as 'Niantic Labs', which is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games, Ingress in 2012 and Pokémon Go together with The Pokemon Company in 2016.
He came up with this amazing idea of creating such an application in 2014, when his company collaborated with Google for an extremely viral game on April Fool’s Day, in which the players were challenged to find Pokemon via the Google Maps.
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