Vivek Paul Gundotra was born on 14 June 1968, in Mumbai, India, and is a businessman, best known to have served as general manager at Microsoft, and as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google, a position he held until 2014 and responsible for creating many of Google’s projects. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Vic Gundotra? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $32 million, earned through success in business – he currently serves AliveCor as their Chief Executive Officer. As he continues his career, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.
Vic Gundotra Net Worth $32 million
Vic attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and would complete a degree in Computer Engineering. After graduating, he started his career in 1991, joining Microsoft, securing the job after showing demos to then head of sales Steve Ballmer. He ran a project that would eventually result in new architecture to support software applications in computers, eventually naming it .Net. He worked for the company for many years and eventually became the General Manager of Platform Evangelism. He wrote the code for network software and helped Microsoft develop the operating system Longhorn. His work during this time also included developing a strategy for Windows Live online services, and promoting Microsoft’s platforms to independent developers and Microsoft’s APIs. He had a lot of competition from Google, especially with Google’s web based software applications, so his success certainly helped increase his net worth.
In 2006, Gundotra left Microsoft and would not find work for a year due to an employee non-compete agreement. He then joined Google the following year, and would become the Senior Vice President of Social. He helped create Google+ and develop it into a social network service as well as an identity service – many believe that he is responsible for improving and popularizing Google+. He also removed social features from Google Reader, and made big contributions to other Google projects including the Google I/O and Google Maps. After serving for seven years with Google, he resigned from his post in 2014, and the following year announced through Google+ that he would be joining AliveCOr as the CEO of the company. Thanks to all of these opportunities, his net worth continues to rise at a rapid pace.
For his work, in 2003 the MIT Technology Review TR100, named Vic in its list of top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. This is thanks to his work and contribution to Microsoft’s .NET Framework.
For his personal life, it is known that Gundotra is married to Claudia. They have two children. In an interview, he mentioned that he promotes a lot of the latest technology, even using a tablet PC to take notes at church. He’s also active on social media, particularly on Google+ and LinkedIn.
