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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“Tele Atlas and Navtech were multi-billion dollar companies. I think maybe one or both of them were public at some point, then got acquired.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…But it was this crappy source of truth map data that everyone used, and you really couldn’t do any better than anyone else because you all just used the same data. It was not that good and it cost a lot of money. Tele Atlas and Navtech were multi-billion dollar companies. I think maybe one or both of them were public at some point, then got acquired. But a lot of money, a lot of revenue. Yup. Sebastian’s first thing was Street View. He already had the experience of orchestrating this fleet of all these cars to drive around and take pictures.…
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