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mywittyname on April 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020

2. They released Inbox, which was amazing and had a cult following.

Then they killed Inbox. Presumably because they could not figure out how to capitalize on an extraordinarily useful, fast paradigm-shifting email client.

mav3rick on April 16, 2020 [–]

Just the insight we were longing for. How about very few users define "cult following" for you ?

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