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David Rosenthal: belief

26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet

“I think if you lumped them all together into Workspace and add Drive, it is over a billion users.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
26 Aug 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yes. But today, Maps has over two billion active users this year. They don’t break out revenue, but estimates are that maps does well over $5 billion in revenue, maybe even $10 billion in revenue. The larger part of that is ads. You see recommended places to go around you all the time whenever you open Google Maps now that are sponsored ads, just like on Google search. Then the smaller part of that is from the API licensing, David, that you were talking about. But this is a real business for Google today. All right. Next ones that we got to talk about, Docs and Spreadsheets. These aren’t the biggest Google apps out there today. I think if you lumped them all together into Workspace and add Drive, it is over a billion users. That whole suite is among their most used products.…

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