Comment by paxys
Did they recently hire some Microsoft PMs?
"Our shiny new product isn't selling. How do we pump up the numbers?"
"Bundle it into another popular product, of course."
Did they recently hire some Microsoft PMs?
"Our shiny new product isn't selling. How do we pump up the numbers?"
"Bundle it into another popular product, of course."
At Google even if you aren't trying to make money, you can get preferred placement in search for some project to boost user numbers and reach. I always worried it made teams complacent about actually making a good product people wanted, but it was hard to resist.
This is how every big tech works. Leech onto high priority projects and call it "impact"