The romance was bad news for their exes — Anne Wojcicki and Hugo Barra. (
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DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING: Amanda Rosenberg (left) and Sergey Brin (right) promoted Google Glass in appearances such as this one in New York with designer Diane von Furstenberg. Their romance was bad news for their exes (inset, top right) — Anne Wojcicki and Hugo Barra. (
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The girlfriend at the center of the split between Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife will no longer be working side by side with her billionaire beau in the wake of the bombshell office romance that has rocked Silicon Valley, The Post has learned.
“They moved her out from under his supervision,” a source in the San Francisco Googleplex said of Internet side dish Amanda Rosenberg, 27, as her secret relationship with Brin became public.
The Brit-bred Rosenberg, who last summer landed a job as marketing manager at Google Glass — a pet project of Brin’s — will now “be even further from Sergey in the chain of command,” the source said.
Brin’s affair with Rosenberg was revealed Wednesday after the tech blog AllThingsD reported he had split with his wife of six years, Anne Wojcicki.
Another tech-news blog, Valleywag, outed Rosenberg as the other woman.
It’s unclear how long Rosenberg and Brin had been dating on the sly, but a source said the Google co-founder and his wife were “still together when Amanda entered the picture.”
Brin and Wojcicki — CEO of DNA-testing-kit firm 23andME, in which Google has invested millions — split about four months ago, an insider said.
Another source with knowledge of Brin’s romance said it was “open to debate” whether Rosenberg caused the split, and noted that the Brin-Wojcicki marriage was “complicated.”
Rosenberg’s claim to fame was coming up with the command, “OK, Glass,” to activate Google Glass, the company’s head-mounted computer.
She had been dating another Googler, Hugo Barra, a top Android exec. Barra resigned this week to take a job with the Chinese phone maker Xiaomi.
His departure followed “a recent thorny personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Googler,” AllThingsD reported.
Adding to the drama, Wojcicki’s sister Susan is a senior Google exec. Brin and co-founder Larry Page started Google in Susan’s garage.
A source said Brin and his wife, who have two small children, have not filed for divorce and still plan to work together on philanthropy projects. The couple has a prenup.
Rosenberg was working in another division but put herself on the Google map when she pitched the “OK, Glass” command idea, which she has boasted took her “three seconds.”
“I interviewed a week later and have been terrorizing the Glass team ever since,” Rosenberg wrote in a Google+ post.
She and Brin, worth an estimated $24.5 billion, had worked side by side promoting the product to the public, even hitting New York Fashion Week together.
A Google spokesman said Rosenberg has not been moved, noting, “The employee remains in her current position and is not transferring to another group.”
Rosenberg — who attended Marlborough College in England with Kate Middleton’s sister, Pippa, and Princess Beatrice — was always ambitious, a former boyfriend told the Daily Mail.
Told his ex was linked to the Google tycoon, he said, “It wouldn’t surprise me in the least — she’s that kind of girl.”
Rosenberg likes to show her sense of humor online. In one video, she recalls the humorous reactions people give her Google Glass.
And an online post, Rosenberg — who could not be reached for comment — joked about her Chinese-Jewish heritage.
“I’m part of the master race that is the Chinese Jew or Chew, if you will,” she wrote, according to the Daily Mail. “Born in Hong Kong but bred in the UK. A misanthrope who’s bad at maths, so I got the worst of both worlds.”