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Real Names didn't come from Eric. He was gone by the time G+ rolled out. Vic had a large hand in the real names decision.

• dredmorbius 13y ago
  Schmidt was selling G+ as "an identity platform".
  • deelowe 13y ago
    Maybe, but by the time it rolled out, Schmidt was gone. G+ is pretty much all Vic.
  • billnguyen 13y ago
    Schmidt, like any good CEO, will always always sell anything his company outputs. You'll never find him criticising anything Google does, maybe in retrospect but never upon launch.
    • dredmorbius 13y ago
      My point isn't that he wasn't criticising, but that he was explicitly endorsing the "identity service" angle.