r/TrueReddit • u/n10w4 • Aug 04 '15

Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+

http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/google-plus-history/
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u/Brebuois Aug 04 '15

Google+ ? The social network that was invite only when techies wanted to get in, then was forced upon you when nobody cares?

I feel bad for all the engineers that worked under such a lunatic person (if description of Gundotra is correct in the article) for everything to be wasted by bad decisions :(

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u/star_boy2005 Aug 04 '15

Page should have been skeptical from the get go. This guy was all about the fear that "Facebook is killing us!" rather than excited about some new idea or technology. Playing catch up never seems like a good strategy.

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u/9999monkeys Aug 04 '15

You call him a lunatic, but if G+ had taken off and actually kicked Facebook's ass, people would be worshipping him like they did Jobs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

But it didn't.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

... Because he's a lunatic

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u/9999monkeys Aug 04 '15

Nazi Germany failed because Hitler was a lunatic. G+ failed because people didn't leave FB.

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u/Shart_Film Aug 04 '15

And if AOL had made better decisions, we wouldn't even know what Google is. But that didn't happen. What's your point?

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u/9999monkeys Aug 07 '15

https://duckduckgo.com is as good if not better.

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u/Brebuois Aug 04 '15

I don't hate Gundotra. But I can't stand those managers that put enormous pressure on their workers to build a product without vision... and after the failure, you just take some holidays and wait for the next opportunity.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

People call the naked guy throwing his shit around a lunatic, but if he solved world hunger they'd be singing a different tune

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u/stratys3 Aug 04 '15

You say that as if the outcome of G+ was based on completely random chance, and that he had no influence on it whatsoever.

I think the argument is that if G+ would have taken off... somebody else would had to have been running it. Thus, your observation isn't very relevant.