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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Google Wave comes up on Acquired, 20VC, Lenny's Podcast, In Depth, American Optimist

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▶ 1:49 Ben Gilbert Google Plus to try to compete with Facebook, Google Wave, Buzz, and about half a dozen messaging apps.
▶ 3:16:26 Ben Gilbert All right, so OpenSocial then in 2007, Google Wave in 2009.
▶ 3:16:41 Ben Gilbert I mean, it, it's kind of crazy that Android is happening over in this other building, and there's this, like, fight with Apple, and that's the same time that they're doing Google Wave.
▶ 3:18:04 Ben Gilbert So, Wave failed because really nobody knew what to use it for despite a dazzling and wonderful first introductory video.
▶ 3:48:28 Ben Gilbert I remember I was desperate for Google Wave invites.
▶ 4:01:20 Ben Gilbert Google+, Google Wave.

▶ 44:32 Aaron Levie How many minutes did it take you for, uh, for you to know Google Wave wasn't gonna work?

▶ 1:12 Cameron Adams So he was one of the founders of Google Maps, and I worked with him on a project called Google Wave, and we did that for like four and a half years.
▶ 4:47 Cameron Adams Google wave itself, like the project I work on at Google was really prescient in what it wanted to do in terms of real time communications and collaborations.

▶ 1:15:31 David Friedberg No, that's not a counterexample because when you have- Google Wave or any of these other nonsense products that didn't work.

▶ 4:13 Lenny Rachitsky You're basically went from a designer on Google Wave to a co-founder of the, of one of the most generational successful startups in the past decade.

▶ 1:00:48 Dan Siroker Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Glass, like, all of these products were basically some smart engineer or technologist starting the sentence with,

▶ 21:58 Jason Cohen Um, you know, Google famously tried to do wave and failed for two years and completely failed.

▶ 56:01 Paul Adams My lesson from a lot of these was we were different and better in these Google projects in ways people didn't care about, you know, like, um, all sorts of Google projects like Google wave was an amazingly innovative product.

▶ 1:01:58 Dan Siroker But you look at a long list of Google products like Google wave and Google glasses and Google buzz things that were technology and search were a problem.

▶ 5:09 Guillermo Rauch And that's the language that you have to use if you want to do some really cool things, like animations, like real time, um, synchronization, which I became obsessed with, like chat applications, Gmail chat, Google docs, Google wave, all…

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