> OPINION: One month after creator and leader of Google+, Vic Gundotra, quietly quit, Google chief Sergey Brin told a conference audience last week that involvement in Google+ was "a mistake." He made the exact opposite statement in 2011.
Whose involvement are we talking about here ? Brin, Gundotra or Google ?
> If only someone could have stepped in and course-corrected Google+.
>
> Oh, right. Someone could have.
>
> The same someone that just told the world, "heh, oops" and walked away to go retreat back into himself, and play with his cars.
Is that someone Brin (who could have and has plenty of money to buy cars) or Gundotra (who could have and left the company a month ago - with enough money to play with cars I suppose) ?
(sorry for hand walking me but the style is confusing me)
It's sort of lazy and cheap to mostly use his hindsight in an article criticizing him. On the other hand, I guess there was plenty said at the time that called the real name policy a mistake.
I don't know if Vic had any sort of popular affinity or affiliation with cars, so I construed it as referring to Brin and Google's pet self-driving vehicle projects (his cars), after having said "Google+ was a mistake" (heh, oops).
> OPINION: One month after creator and leader of Google+, Vic Gundotra, quietly quit, Google chief Sergey Brin told a conference audience last week that involvement in Google+ was "a mistake." He made the exact opposite statement in 2011.
Whose involvement are we talking about here ? Brin, Gundotra or Google ?
> If only someone could have stepped in and course-corrected Google+.
>
> Oh, right. Someone could have.
>
> The same someone that just told the world, "heh, oops" and walked away to go retreat back into himself, and play with his cars.
Is that someone Brin (who could have and has plenty of money to buy cars) or Gundotra (who could have and left the company a month ago - with enough money to play with cars I suppose) ?
(sorry for hand walking me but the style is confusing me)