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Part of the problem is also that lot of Google products are free. So there is no real way to measure bottom line impact when they mess with or kill things outri

Part of the problem is also that lot of Google products are free. So there is no real way to measure bottom line impact when they mess with or kill things outright. Their current upper management is basically MBAs focused only on bottom line so birthing new free products and killing them is not something they care too much about. Birthing is driven by empire builders and killing is driven by Ruth Porat.

mike_d 6y ago
Things at Google aren't killed because they do or don't make money. Sure people have budget meetings and fight over hardware allocations, but things die because no engineers want to work on them. You don't get promoted for doing your job and maintaining things, you get promoted for inventing and doing new stuff.
- igetspam 6y ago
  That's not entirely true. There have been plenty of shutdowns over the inability to monetize, either directly or via ads or data collection. Products have to have a value add for G or they don't survive. It's just that "money" isn't the only currency. The statement about promotion is spot on though.