Growth Targets

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Investor growth targets and pressure to increase revenue per user | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Once a platform has a large audience, investor attention often shifts from acquiring users to extracting more revenue from each one, creating incentives for more ads, paid features, licensing, and other monetization systems.

Shutdowns of useful products that do not meet corporate growth targets | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: Google Reader's 2013 shutdown shows how a product can remain useful and loved by a dedicated audience while still failing the scale and focus tests of the company that operates it.