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by atleastoptimal 1039 days ago
Google's willingness to abandon so many of its projects may be disappointing but to me it's a positive signal regarding their ability to avoid sunk-cost thinking, which is the #1 killer of mammoth companies.
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You could also read it as their incapability to iterate towards a successful product. They have become too big to try.
Or there inability to keep an already successful product successful.