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No. Amazon and Microsoft are equally happy to kill their failed consumer products as Google. And none of them have a high rate of killing their business-focused
by jsnell 6y ago
No. Amazon and Microsoft are equally happy to kill their failed consumer products as Google. And none of them have a high rate of killing their business-focused cloud products.
But for whatever reason, when Bezos brags about how making failed products is a core part of the company culture because it shows you’re tajing risks, HN shrugs. When MS kills off billion dollar consumer bets after only a couple of years, HN just goes “lol, why would anyone have used Mixer”.
It is a clear double standard that seems to have happened since memes are self-reinforcing.