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duxupyesterday at 5:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

I'll riff off this and say that even Google in its heyday was strangely uneven from product to product. Some products were amazing, still pretty dang good. Some products were released in a mess, abandoned nearly from the start, or driven into the ground with seemingly very little competence driving them. It always felt like Google had a bit of a darker side lurking as far as just getting basics wrong product to product / team to team.


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jordanbtoday at 1:32 AM

My understanding is Google had this culture of killing products that was fostered by L&S on the idea of "fail fast." Every product had a few year grace period but then the knives were out as PMs all tried to get your product killed so they could add to their "fail fast" portfolio.

SlightlyLeftPadyesterday at 6:12 PM

Ah yes, I too remember Google Wave.