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Orkut Büyükkökten

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“Practical or feasible. And as a result, we lost a lot of our initial user base. It was super active and fanatic about it. And we had Japan, we had US.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the biggest mistake we did was we did not anticipate the overwhelming demand that Orkadaka was going to have. And when we launched it, it wasn't ready to scale. And it was extremely difficult to scale a system that was built on Windows architecture. We even went like Redmond and talked to Microsoft and we were trying to figure out how to make it scale fast, but it was just”
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“It's a combination of factors the way the site was designed, easy to use. We had interesting network effects where we met connectors in those countries that invited all their friends to sign up and did a huge impact.”
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“Lot of our US user base left. They were super active at the beginning, but as soon as we started running into these infrastructure problems, cable to issues, the servers became less responsive. They were giving a lot of errors. It also happened to France there. We lost most of our US user base. But in countries like Brazil, for instance, it didn't have an effect on the growth. And it could be because they are in a different time zone or maybe a lot of them are using moderns to connect online. And we were able to continue growing exponentially on a lot of countries outside of the US, like Brazil, India, Estonia.”
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“And they named it after me. I was on the engineer designer who worked on it, and I already had the domain. Was fortunate. And when we launched, the entire system was set up on a single server. It was written with.NET, C sharp. Windows SQL Server, and it wasn't written to scale My estimate was that it would handle up to 200,000 users on a single machine, and it was able to handle up to 300,000 users. But just within a couple of weeks, the demand exceeded our architectural infrastructure. And it almost took a year to be able to scale the system. When you have a network that's live, I mean, you're transitioning to a new infrastructure, it's a tremendous amount of effort. So we had to rewrite everything with Google tools, with Java, C++. And throughout that year, a lot of interesting transitions happened. One was...”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My biggest passions in life are people and connecting people through technology. And if I look at society today, I believe that 99% of us need to connect more. It's kind of interesting with the digital era and the smartphones and how we're all connected all the time. I feel like we are getting unhappier and more disconnected. And we almost stopped interacting with people in real life. When you are at a coffee shop, instead of talking to the barista, you're on your phone. If you're in a subway station waiting for your friend, you're on your phone. I even see people at a restaurant who are having dinner and they're all looking at their devices.”
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“And I want to create a social network that connects everyone on the entire planet, not just the Sanford community. I talked to my manager and started working on a 20% project named Eden. I thought Eden was the perfect name for it since it's a paradise, a wonderful place for people to get together. And it was a 20% project. We did internal testing inside Google and Erned loved it and said we should just launch it.”
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“We would create a profile and you would invite your friends who would sign up and it would have a network graph where you could see how people connect and relate to each other and it had features like messaging, events, what you see today in social networks in general. It was a very different era, though. Thorns at the time were not smart. And people didn't even have digital cameras. So to put pictures up of the students, we'll set up booths and take digital pictures and upload them ourselves.”
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“And my thinking was it would be more popular among graduate students since they were the ones who needed the mods to connect. But it recalled on in undergrads and just within two weeks we signed up a third of the undergraduate community. Wow.”
2016-12-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Orkut Büyükkökten, Founder, Hello · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things I noticed was with undergrads, they met most of their friends in their freshman year and spent rest of their college life with the same small group of people, with grad students. Most of their friends were from their research departments, and it was extremely hard to meet people, even in small community like Stanford, which as a human body of 16,000 students. And I wanted to make it a lot easier to meet people and make friends. So I create a social network called Club Nexus in year 2000”
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“So I arrived in the stage as a bright eyed grad student at Stanford, and I finished my PhD in computer science. And at Sanford, I got reinterested in connecting people through technology.”
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“I joined Google in august 2002 And I joined the front end team. I was doing engineering mostly on the search and front facing the start.”
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