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Why would a business release a revenue negative product? Stopping engineers from making products that dont contribute to the bottom line is exactly what these gatekeepers should be doing


Because you don't have perfect foresight.

Something that loses money now can be the next big thing. ChatGPT is the biggest recent example of this.

I had seen chatbot demos at Google as early as 2019.


Because due to that mindset now FB sucks and no one wants to use it anymore?


FB ad serve up 10% yoy but no is using it?


Correct, they don't know yet that their platform is dead, but it is. Most of those are bots.




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