Chris Wetherell is a software developer and musician from the US best known as the founder of Google Reader and as an influential "ex-Googler" since his departure from the company.

Software engineer

While working at

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in 2005 as a Senior Software Engineer, Wetherell was involved in developing the feed aggregator

Google Reader Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of prog ...

. After leaving Google, Wetherell worked at Twitter as Consulting Project Lead on a new "Retweet" feature, co-founded Thing Labs and worked on Brizzly, before co-founding Avocado to produce an intimacy application of the same name and a social spin-off called Pears (Avocado closed in February 2017). Avocado was invested in by

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and

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among others.

Musician

Wetherell is also a musician, performing drums and vocals for American rock bands Dealership and Citizens Here and Abroad.

Personal life

Wetherell is a native of Beaverton, Oregon.

References

External links

Wetherell's personal site Massless
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