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10% time was an interesting idea, but have any valuable revenue generating products ever actually come out of it?

• throwaway3699 6y ago
  20% time is mostly used for side projects which aren't about coding or products anymore. But back in the day most new things Google was making came out of it.
• vmsp 6y ago
  Gmail, no? G Suite brings revenue.
  • simonh 6y ago
    It doesn't look like Gmail came out of 20% time, Paul Buchheit was asked to work on it so it looks like it was an assigned project not a spare time thing, and Google Docs was an acquisition (Writely).
    • jacquesm 6y ago
      Google news did iirc.