Goggle Plus - What Is It, and How Did It Come About?

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Coud gues us, i guess you had some that gave everybody a little bit of hope. Gogl didn't really understand social in the way the a mark does er and ye, i think it was a very difficult situation for them to navigate. At one point we had two hundred n eighty people contributing code, which at that time was really unheard ofa. Ye, thousands of developer, thousands of people eventually were on the google plus team ngentile. Now, the product was growing like crazy because gogle decided to put it in the tool bar on the top,. And plus so people, if they don't remember, plus was, if you something in the bloga...

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4:47 Jason intros Dan Pupius of Range
6:13 What is Range and why is it asynchronous & who types of companies is it made for?
10:48 What is the core feature of Range?
15:19 Dan's time at Google, working on Google+ & Google Buzz
21:16 Competing against Facebook's product velocity
24:28 Why did Google+ fail?
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1:09:21 Potential of "hybrid" remote/in-person offices after going back to work