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Quibi

Quibi Holdings · 20202020 · 8 mo

A short-form mobile streaming service that raised $1.75 billion and lasted barely six months.

$0 raisedPoor Product-Market Fit
product

Segway PT

Segway Inc. · 20012020 · 18 yrs 7 mo

A self-balancing personal transporter unveiled as a city-redesigning invention, retired as a tourist vehicle.

$0 raisedPoor Product-Market Fit
product

Google+

Google · 20112019 · 7 yrs 10 mo

Google's social network, mandated across the company's products and abandoned eight years later.

Figures undisclosedPoor Product-Market Fit
product

Windows Phone

Microsoft · 20102017 · 6 yrs 11 mo

A well-reviewed mobile OS that arrived after the app ecosystem had already chosen sides.

$0 spentTechnology Obsolescence
product

Juicero

Juicero Inc. · 20162017 · 1 yr 6 mo

A $400 wifi-connected juice press, undone by a video of two hands doing the same job.

$0 raisedPoor Product-Market Fit
ad campaign

Live For Now Moments

PepsiCo · 20172017 · 1 day

A protest-themed soda ad pulled within roughly 24 hours of release.

Figures undisclosedPR Disaster
service

Vine

Twitter · 20132017 · 4 yrs

The six-second video app that shaped a decade of internet culture and never found a business.

Figures undisclosedAcquired & Killed
product

Theranos

Theranos · 20132016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

A blood-testing device that promised hundreds of results from a fingerprick and could not deliver them.

$0 raisedRegulatory
product

Google Reader

Google · 20052013 · 7 yrs 9 mo

The RSS reader a generation of the web ran on, closed while still beloved and still used.

Figures undisclosedInternal Cannibalization
product

New Coke

The Coca-Cola Company · 19851985 · 3 mo

A reformulated Coca-Cola that beat the original in blind taste tests and lost to it everywhere else.

Figures undisclosedPR Disaster