| ▲ | pronik 21 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Probably Google's biggest failure ever was to recognize they've already had a social network: Gmail. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jonas21 21 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||
They tried to develop Gmail into a social network in 2010 with Google Buzz [1]. It received a lot of backlash from people who did not want their email to be a social network. The social network they were not developing well was YouTube. Eventually, they figured it out, and it's estimated YouTube would be worth $550B as a standalone business today [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz [2] https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-valuation-wort... | ||||||||||||||
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