Gundotra sucked anyway. So does Google+. That's what happens when you "copy" technology, rather than rethinking/innovating. A new player to the space, and they just "copy" - that sucks. (apologize for my negativity.)

Try Google searching on Vic Gundotra "licking the cookie".

(a metaphor for making a project "his" before others can lay claim.)

"Gundotra, we’re told, would “lick the cookie” at Google by putting future products and features into presentations about Google+, long before his teams would be able to get to building them".

http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...