John Hanke

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Hanke 2016 at San Diego Comic-Con

John Hanke (born September 19, 1967 ) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing director of the software development company Niantic .

Life

Hanke grew up in the Texan city ​​of Cross Plains and graduated from secondary school there in 1985. By 1989 he completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Austin . He then worked for the United States Foreign Service in Washington, DC and Myanmar for four years .

He later began a Masters degree from the University of California, Berkeley . There he was part of the start-up Archetype Interactive , which published the first MMORPG game Meridian 59 . The startup was sold to The 3DO Company on the day Hanke graduated in 1996 . The Big Network , which he co-founded , was sold to eUniverse in 2000 for over US $ 17 million .

From 2001, Hanke was co-founder and managing director of Keyhole , a company for spatial software that provided users of satellite images around the world. The novel mapping technology attracted international media attention, which led to the company being acquired by Google in 2004 for US $ 35 million . There, Hanke became deputy chairman of product management in the geo department and in 2005 led the transformation of the keyhole technology to Google Earth and Google Maps . He also negotiated that Google Maps will be integrated into the iPhone . Other products in which Hanke was involved are Google Street View , SketchUp and Panoramio .

In 2010, Hanke built up the internal game startup Niantic (then Niantic Labs ). There, his team developed the location-based augmented reality game Ingress , which had a million players within a year of its release in 2013.

2015 Niantic split by Google from time Hanke collected about 30 million US dollars of Google, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company to the game Pokémon go to develop that within a short time with over 500 million downloads to one of the most popular mobile apps was .

Web links

Commons : John Hanke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e The Inside Story Of 'Pokémon Go's' Evolution From Google Castoff To Global Phenomenon at Forbes on August 23, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Meet John Hanke, the eccentric board-game loving visionary who Runs the mysterious firm behind Pokémon Go in The Telegraph of July 24, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2019
  3. ↑ a b How the mastermind behind 'Pokémon Go' got his start on CNBC on July 27, 2016, accessed on February 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hanke, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1967