[ajmurmann]

I wonder if building new products is preferably over always building new features. Some products are done from a user perspective, but keep getting tinkered with because it's growth or death and eventually the beloved product is unrecognizable. Maybe the ideal scenario is to put those products into maintenance mode instead and move investment to new products. Google's problem is that they are so extreme on only investing in new products and don't make incremental improvements.

Is bizarre that this and how it's tight to the way they do promotions has even evident to people outside Google for years and nothing changes.

[ravenstine]

That philosophy may have emerged in The Google initially because new products are far less entangled with existing tech debt than new features. There's certainly a logic to it when you're a startup or even mid-size company. On the other hand, I struggle to imagine how it can be sustainable alongside the growth mindset at a very large firm.