Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
26 Aug 2025 Acquired Google Part II: Alphabet
“By the way, also since I think the theme of this whole episode is like the dual bottom line to Google of everything they’re doing of both revenue and profits and strategic installation versus other large tech companies.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part II: Alphabet
Transcript context
…As mentioned earlier, I don’t think they ever lost much more than a billion a year, and I think they got break even within conservatively five years. After the $1.7 billion purchase price and the $5 billion in additional costs, Google paid $6.7 billion. I bet it’s closer to five and a half, six to own something that spits off $8 billion a year in profit today. Revenues are growing 10% to 15% every year. By the way, also since I think the theme of this whole episode is like the dual bottom line to Google of everything they’re doing of both revenue and profits and strategic installation versus other large tech companies. Oh, but David, you’re forgetting the third of organizing the world’s information and making it.…
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