Re:Tables: Tracking work for teams
by user_501238901 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:35PM
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Diversifying.
Simplified: If you spend $1 million each on ten projects, each of which have a 90% chance to fail and 10% chance to bring in $100m in profits, then it is absolutely worth it
Which makes somewhat sense for Google (I mean, Gmail is the titular example right?). But Gmail is 16 years old, Gsuite is 14. Where is the next unicorn vs. the much more than twenty failed products to offset this?
And more to the point; are these projects "failing" because savvy companies are working out that the play is short term seeking either high growth or death...
EDIT: 205 https://killedbygoogle.com/
I have a wider question too; large organisations spend millions building internal tools like this (and for a plethora of other things technical and project related). None of which are market leading and all of which progress steadily to abondonware...
It feels like once a corporation has gotten to that point its just too large and lost its core focus. I've seen (recently) pivots from poor UI's and interfaces to integrating one great SAAS tool with another great SAAS tool - because both the SAAS figured out all that stuff ages ago for you... at 10% of the cost.