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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

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581 points antr | 1 comments | 16 Aug 13 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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mattstocum ◴[16 Aug 13 12:45 UTC] No.6223613[source]▶
And how many failed projects came out of 20% time?
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1. dasmoth ◴[16 Aug 13 12:49 UTC] No.6223633[source]▶
Does this matter if the engineers and/or the company learn something from the failed project?

We under-value sincere-but-failed projects.