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I’m curious what examples there are of companies that got to product-market fit, and go-to-market fit, but whose engineering execution fumbled it away.

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Jawbone probably fits here. Real Player too. Blogger.

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Interesting. Blogger? Did engineering fail before the acquisition? Or after?

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I asked myself the same question. Hard to remember. I took Last.fm off the list because it was definitely after they got acquired.

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Fascinating that both Blogger and Twitter would be in the bucket of "problematic engineering execution leads to underachieving commercial outcomes."

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