This is anecdotal, but I've also seen several projects in my ~20-year career that ended up no where. And reading through these stories (and there are countless

This is anecdotal, but I've also seen several projects in my ~20-year career that ended up no where. And reading through these stories (and there are countless stories of these doomed projects) one cannot help but wonder the amount of waste that we create. The original motivation of the whole Lean Startup was to reduce waste - not that Lean Startup model fits all the projects (and it shouldn't). Of course, it's impossible to know how a project will end up, but there must be a way for us as humanity to improve? I'm also looking at the number of projects that I have built that got nowhere, so I'm also part of the problem. And with these projects, I tend to shrug off and say "well, that was a good experience". But a "good experience" at $60M price-tag doesn't sound right.