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[beatgammit]

No, it seems their products die because there's more prestige in launching a product than maintaining one.

[libria → beatgammit]

"This went poorly because we care far more about launch than execution" is really the same spirit as the gp's paraphrase.

[spicyramen → libria]

Many products from Google die because is a bottom up company: many ideas that make it into products come from Engineering directly, (guys who wants o solve challenging problems), to later find out that the business analysis was poor...and an internal performance system that advocates for launches

[justinclift → spicyramen]

So, extremely poor governance?

[spicyramen → justinclift]

Definitely, specially in Cloud where Enterprise don't like cool projects or experiments, they need solid roadmap and commitment from product companies