1. John Hanke was born on 1967 and is an American technology executive.
10 Facts About John Hanke
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John Hanke attended the University of Texas, Austin and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1989.
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John Hanke moved across the country to attend the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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John Hanke joined Steve Sellers and his video game design startup Archetype Interactive, which was developing Meridian 59, one of the first commercial massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
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John Hanke became the co-founder and CEO of geospatial data visualization firm Keyhole in 2001.
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John Hanke joined Google as a part of Keyhole's acquisition, and he became the vice president of product management for Google's Geo division.
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John Hanke negotiated an agreement with Apple to include Google Maps on the iPhone.
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In 2010, John Hanke was given resources to staff an augmented reality gaming unit within Google and the new internal startup was dubbed Niantic Labs.
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John Hanke led Niantic's split from Google in late 2015 and raised $30 million from Google, Nintendo and Pokemon.
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John Hanke stayed as the company's CEO and guided the firm through the release of Pokemon Go in July 2016, which generated over $4.2 billion in revenue.