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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Once it became clear that it wouldn’t rival Facebook, Google+ lived zombielike as a “collective hallucination,” recalled Hunter Walk, YouTube’s former product director.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
When Emil joined Uber, his role was scoped as "the external face to Uber"
Erik Torenberg • Emil Michael (ex CBO at Uber)
Facebook was the arbiter of importance and was unabashedly social. Its prescriptions were based on the preference for personally relevant material over material with global relevance.
Jill Abramson • Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Without this expertise, he said he thought that the company had built incentives into the app that encouraged users and media outlets to write tweets and headlines that appealed to sensationalism instead of accuracy.
Michael Barbaro • Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes (Published 2020)
Zuckerberg’s conviction in a single identity led him to require real names on Facebook. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, online identity was pseudonymous: on AOL Instant Messenger, you were soccergirl7 or doglover42. (I’m sorry to say that I was sexyrexy3617—a friend convinced me that it would be both funny and cool. It was neither.) By mandating... See more