I disagree here. They don't lack marketing talent. They lack executives with a cohesive view of 'Google' the company. It's just a bunch of hyper rational uti

I disagree here. They don't lack marketing talent. They lack executives with a cohesive view of 'Google' the company. It's just a bunch of hyper rational utility maximizers trying to meet whatever quarterly/yearly targets they have. By launching and abandoning products, users are rightly skeptical of investing any capital (time, money) on Google products. This notion of 'fail fast' is a myopic approach. Yes, if a product doesn't make a huge impact then 'fail fast' prevents you from throwing good money after bad. But the user base you build gets pissed off, doubly so when you build a good product and then yank it away. So on the next go around, first adopters are hesitant to even bother. It's better to just not launch the product in the first place.