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Jeff Dean Google departure: MapReduce and Bigtable co-creator Dean left Google after 27 years alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation backed by Alphabet as a founding investor,
Jeff Dean, one of Google's most respected executives, is leaving the company after 27 years. Employees have had a lot to say about it.
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and the engineer behind foundational systems from MapReduce to Google Brain, confirmed Wednesday he is leaving the company after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop.
Their startup, Discovery Loop, aims to automate the scientific method itself, and Google is helping fund it. Read More Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headline Have a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to cover?