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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:11 David Rosenthal Oh yeah, also friend feed founder, Facebook CTO, co-CEO of Salesforce, chairman of OpenAI.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:14:47 Ben Gilbert So, the engineer who started Gmail, Paul Buchheit, now, of course, a partner at Y Combinator, and actually with Brett Taylor, started FriendFeed.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:12:08 David Rosenthal FriendFeed.
- ▶ 3:12:16 Ben Gilbert Because FriendFeed would just federate stories from other social networks into one aggregated feed.
- ▶ 3:12:25 Ben Gilbert Did it only store that information on FriendFeed and not propagate it back?
- ▶ 3:12:33 David Rosenthal Hey, Native Mechanic on FriendFeed.
- ▶ 3:12:36 Ben Gilbert Man, friend feed was so awesome.
- ▶ 3:12:50 Ben Gilbert I kind of need friend feed again.
- ▶ 3:13:02 Ben Gilbert Facebook would later acquire friend feed.
- ▶ 3:13:05 David Rosenthal Brett Taylor would become CTO when Adam D'Angelo left to go start Quora, and then when Facebook acquired FriendFeed, Brett became CTO.
- ▶ 3:13:35 David Rosenthal Well, and Paul Buchite, the other FriendFeed founder.
- ▶ 3:13:50 Ben Gilbert Okay, so FriendFeed invents the like button.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:38:03 Ben Gilbert And Peter Fenton had been an investor in FriendFeed when Brett Taylor started that before Brett sold that to Facebook.