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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by akhilcacharya on Saturday February 02, 2019 @12:23AM (#19061283)
Imo, there are other companies that operate like this but don’t lose customer trust in the process.

I might be biased but I think Amazon is like this.

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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by oh_sigh on Saturday February 02, 2019 @01:58AM (#19061590)
Remember the fire phone?
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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by akhilcacharya on Saturday February 02, 2019 @02:06AM (#19061622)
The fire phone begat the teams that build Alexa and Go so I’d say we are doing pretty well.

Disclaimer - work in Alexa

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Re:More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision by untog on Saturday February 02, 2019 @09:18AM (#19063083)
Sure, but there's no denying that the phone was an utter, abysmal failure. Alexa could be exactly what it is today without a lot of that development.
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