Genius of deviations
The strange behavior of the Android creator was publicly noticed not only by observant journalists, but also by his colleagues. For example, Apple founder Steve Jobs in the name Rubin is “a big arrogant bastard” and former Google President Eric Schmidt is a “deviant genius.” Rubin’s eccentricities manifested themselves in many ways. However, the most striking and scandalous of these is the obsession with sex.
All the details of Rubin’s immoral life emerged in 2018, when The New York Times (NYT) reported it. published An extensive investigation into the reasons why a developer was fired from Google. The creator of Android left “good company” in 2014, at which time he had been head of the robotics division for a year. Rubin according to the official version gone Google to develop its own startup incubator.
But the NYT has learned that Larry Page, one of Google’s founders, asked the genius to leave the company in 2013 after learning that Rubin had forced a junior Google employee to perform oral sex on him. At that time, the “father” of Android was already facing disciplinary action: he was not paid one of the bonuses for storing porn videos featuring bound women on his work computer.
When both incidents occurred, Rubin was married to a Japanese woman named Rie Hirabaru, whom they met while working at Google. The woman gave up her career for family life and raising children, and Rubin maintained relationships with employees even after the wedding. In an interview with the NYT, Hirabaru said Rubin created a secret bank account through which he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on mistresses. The journalists also had a screenshot of their correspondence with one of them.
“You will be happy when I take care of you. You will be my property and I will lend you to others,” he wrote.
sex club
After the NYT investigation was published, other media outlets also found and published details about Rubin’s personal life. new details, open A report published by BuzzFeed News in 2019 directly echoed this chilling “property” message. In the materials of the case regarding the division of property during the divorce of Rubin and Rie Hirabaru, journalists found the testimony of a woman named “M”, a member of a sex club created by Rubin.
“M” said that Rubin fulfilled the various sexual desires of the men he proposed to her in exchange for money. The joys were recorded on video for the “pleasure” of the developer and his friends. Rubina also pleased herself in “M”.
It is not known how many such women there are. Rubin paid all of the sex workers’ expenses in exchange for the right to offer them to other men. Orgies were held among them regularly.
It is possible that the men Rubin suggested as mistresses were other top executives at Google. The founder of Android was “fired” from Google with a huge severance pay of $90 million. James Martin, one of the shareholders of Alphabet (Google’s parent company – Ed.), suggested in a conversation with The Washington Post that it could be given to Rubin. a “golden parachute” (a huge severance pay. – Ed.) for his silence. Martin believes that otherwise “unsavory details of sexual harassment by Google’s top executives” could have been made public.
Rubin either denied all the accusations or said they were greatly exaggerated. He attributed the slander to the machinations of Hirabaru, who wanted to sue him for the money he earned at Google. According to Hirabaru, before the wedding, Rubil forced her to sign a prenuptial agreement under which she could not claim her personal money during the divorce.
steel passions
Throughout his life, Rubin was obsessed not only with women but also with robots. Stories about this hobby also reveal that the creator of Android was a rather eccentric person.
“Andy Rubin is a 56-year-old engineer with a shaved head, wearing a black leather jacket and wire-rimmed glasses. He is perhaps best known in the world as the creator of Android. But in Silicon Valley (a part of California where most of the world’s largest IT companies are concentrated – Ed.), he became famous for his passion for bringing machines to life, and this sets him apart from others,” GQ tells Rubin.
in the late 90’s worked At WebTV, a company that makes Internet-enabled set-top boxes. There Rubin created a wheeled robot with a camera, microphone and remote control. Either as a joke or for the sake of his immorality, he used the machine to spy on and eavesdrop on his colleagues. Eventually Rubin’s partners got tired of this, they hacked the robot and began monitoring it. This incident caused some fuss in the media about the use of robots in industrial espionage.
Later, after Google acquired Android, Rubin outfitted his California home with a retina-scanning doorbell. If the system did not recognize the guest, it activated a robotic arm in the house that sounded a gong. The programmer joked that he created this system to protect against ex-girlfriends. The Android office on Google’s campus also had a similar robotic arm. Rubin spilled coffee on him every time he sent her a text message to that effect.
The culmination of the “father” of Android’s passion for robots was his appointment as head of robotics at Google.
Rubin jokingly named his part of the company “Replicant” in honor of the robots that rebelled against humans in the science fiction movie “Blade Runner.” Not everyone laughed at this joke.
GQ writes that some in Silicon Valley seriously believe that Rubin, with Google’s unlimited resources and formidable character, could launch the machines’ rebellion against humanity.
Rubin has continued to live in California in recent years. He invests in IT startups that interest him and also runs his own company, Simple Things, which develops software for “smart” video surveillance systems.
As for his true passion, it looks like we’ll find out from future research.