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Google cofounder Sergey Brin admitted Tuesday that he should not have been even "marginally" involved in the company's social network, Google+, claiming that he's "not a very social person."
"It was probably a mistake," he said on stage at ReCode's first Code Conference near Los Angeles, "for me to be working on anything tangentially related to social to begin with."
It is widely believed that former Google executive Vic Gundotra was primarily responsible for founding Google+, and led the charge for it until he left the company in April. This is the first time Brin has said he was involved with the gestation of the service in any way.
Brin, who described himself as "kind of a weirdo," said he just used Google+ to share images of his family.
Google's social network has about a one-fifth of the monthly active users Facebook has, and recently lost Vic Gundotra, the Google executive who lead Google+.
The good news for Google? Brin now seems to be spending most of his time working with Google X, the company's secret lab where employees are creating new tech advancements for the future. On Tuesday, Brin showed off one new toy from the lab: a small, self-driving car built entirely at Google.
Not bad for a weirdo.
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