[blackeyeblitzar]

I’m convinced the Google treadmill of products that are created, shut down, and recreated is due to a promotion oriented culture. They must be getting rewarded for launches, not for building useful products or successful businesses.

[Arnt]

Rumour has it that it's easy to get a bonus or raise for a new something, hard if you work on maintaining something. The new something doesn't need to be totally new, though.

But to be fair: In an organisation where your product is going to be compared against Adwords, your product will seem insignificant and irrelevant, and that's not because of how your team works on the product, and it's noe because of how the organisation does the comparison.

[Havoc]

The other explanation I’ve seen is that the 20% time leads to lots of small products without much of an overarching biz strategy

[snotrockets]

20% time was also killed by Google (even if not officially)

[rhmw2b]

Yeah it’s effectively dead. Also referred to as 120% time.