It's not clear what role Besbris will be taking next.
Tellingly, at the time,
the Google executive publicly commenting on that statement was not Besbris, but Horowitz.
Dave Besbris welcomes us to GoogleDance and
strongly encourages we pocket our phones for the night, so… ❤️ SMX WEB.
TechCrunch has learned, and now confirmed with Google, that David Besbris has left his role as the head of the company's social
and identity product.
Besbris only took over Google+ less than a year ago,
in April 2014, after Vic Gundotra- who had started and led Google+ since its inception- left the company.
And it was only in October 2014 that Besbris, reclining in a pool of plastic bubbles(pretty ironic in retrospect),
told Re/code that Google was in social and Google+“for the long haul.”.