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		troupo on Dec 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees? No, Reader was killed because it: - was free - didn't contribute to revenue growth from ads

creesch on Dec 12, 2024 [–]

> And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees?

It is for a company where the promotion culture rewards new initiatives and products and doesn't reward people maintaining products. Which was most certainly the company culture around the time reader was killed.

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