At its peak, Reader had just north of 30 million users, many of them using it every day. That’s a big number — by almost any scale other than Google’s. Google scale projects are about hundreds of millions and billions of users, and executives always seemed to regard Reader as a rounding error. Internally, lots of workers used and loved it, but the company’s leadership began to wonder whether Reader was ever going to hit Google scale. Almost nothing ever hits Google scale, which is why Google kills almost everything.
Why companies are like this? I mean, this is not a matter of redirecting existing resources to the project that generates the most revenue. You are fucking Google, you just can hire more people for those projects.
Found this bit really interesting:
Why companies are like this? I mean, this is not a matter of redirecting existing resources to the project that generates the most revenue. You are fucking Google, you just can hire more people for those projects.