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"Killed by Google" has a similar problem.

Google has killed products that could be entire companies if they weren't attached to the Search Ads firehose.

A $100 dinner could be an annual splurge if you're making minimum wage, and an arbitrary Tuesday if you have a quarter million dollar salary.

Executives think the same way about revenue streams. When they have one product that makes $$$$$ in revenue, they think "not worth my time" to consider another that makes $$. Really frustrating for the people making and using the lower revenue product, but it's why Google feels like a "billion users or bust" company.



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