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by amorphid 2894 days ago
> $50M is tiny compared to the opportunity cost of having 100 of your best engineers jump ship to a competitor or found a new one.

One of the following must be true:

- Fuchsia has perceived product value, and it's an investment

- Google doesn't have enough interesting work right now, the amount of interesting fluctuates up & down, and retaining expensive employees by having them work on "Fun Fuchsia" during the current down cycle is more efficient than hiring expensive employee attrition+recruitment

- Fuchsia has no product value, and Google has too many expensive engineers