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I don't necessarily think the Google graveyard is that much bigger than other companies, it's just more visible to the public. Any large software company is goi
by patwolf 6y ago
I don't necessarily think the Google graveyard is that much bigger than other companies, it's just more visible to the public. Any large software company is going to have a lot of projects that were sunset early or canceled before the first release. I don't have statistics for this, but Cloud Print lasted for 10 years, and that seems like a fairly typical lifespan for any product.
It can be painful seeing the fruits of one's labor killed off by an unsympathetic executive, but it is the nature of the work.
- woofie11 6y agoIt's not about bigger, so much as about more sudden, arbitrary, and capricious. In most companies, products which consistently don't show a profit are phased out, usually with transition paths. At Google, products that don't show exponential growth are wack-a-moled, offloading costs on customers and dumping them on the ground.