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Re:Can anyone working @Google explain the decision to kill I... by elchupanebre on Saturday February 09, 2019 @04:06AM (#19121439)
The Inbox was a vanity project of Clay Bavor. He got the promotion he wanted and moved on. The official version, of course, was a different one and amounted to something like "more wood behind fewer arrows".
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Re:Can anyone working @Google explain the decision to kill I... by rajacombinator on Saturday February 09, 2019 @07:41PM (#19125700)
How does one develop these kind of cults of personality in large organizations that can allow for “vanity projects?”
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