From American Pie to Google+

If you go solely by Ron Gorodetzky’s IMDb page, the UC San Diego grad does not impress. All that’s listed is a credit as “robot consultant” for 2005 video sequel American Pie Presents Band Camp.

However, once you read today’s LA Times profile piece by Nathan Olivarez-Giles, a very different picture emerges. Turns out the American Pie gig was just a detour made possible by his sister and brother-in-law. On the Internet day job side, Gorodetzky has triumphed at Digg, Revision3, Fflick and now Google+ as part of a team of engineers seeking to integrate YouTube into the company’s social media app:

“We’re playing with some ideas–what sort of useful information can you extract from YouTube comments and how can we make things more social,” he said.

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