Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet
“Then the question becomes how profitable is the 50 billion in revenue? And officially we don’t know, but there are these great things called research firms out there that make our jobs that Acquired here much easier.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
Transcript context
…Human attention, time sink known to man. Then the question becomes how profitable is the 50 billion in revenue? And officially we don’t know, but there are these great things called research firms out there that make our jobs that Acquired here much easier. Storied firm, Moffett Nathanson published a report earlier this year that they think YouTube does about $8 billion in operating income, 8 billion a year. I’d want to diff that against their total investment into. Oh yeah. Okay, great. This is the way to grade it. Okay, here we go.…
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