Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

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…If you were looking for somebody to communicate and push down this new top down vision across the company, he would be a logical choice. Yes. I don’t know if he raised his hand. I don’t know if Larry said, hey, I really think you should do this on our behalf. But what is definitely true is it became Vic’s thing and Eric and Larry and Sergey step back and let Vic run with it. He was given an enormous amount of institutional authority. We should say too, you alluded to this earlier, what was Google Plus? It wasn’t just a social product in and of itself. It was baked into all of Google. It was inserted into every other product that Google had. There’s a quote from Vic to the press at the time about this, about what Google Plus is. He says, this is the next generation of Google. It is Google plus one.…

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