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They can adjust their culture so they promote employees for maximizing the value of existing products, finding product market fit, etc instead of building new projects only to move on from them.

They can gate the creation of new product and require more robust market and user research to ensure they're not releasing something that doesn't have a chance of hitting whatever their targets are, or would require more budget than willing to invest.

They don't just kill products, they often leave them painfully unfinished and unsupported. Support forums are complete ghost towns.

Did you know the "new" Apps Script editor doesn't have a version history or way to revert? Too bad, the old one was sunset. Google would tell you to pound sand, but there's no one there to listen.

One example in an absolute ocean of examples.




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