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"Are they a Business or a Research Lab?" Is there something wrong with being a Research lab that has $100B backed in funding?
by SurrealSoul 8y ago
"Are they a Business or a Research Lab?"
Is there something wrong with being a Research lab that has $100B backed in funding?
- IshKebab 8y agoYes. A very high level of funding usually isn't sustainable unless you have some way of making money (i.e. you're a business) or you are government-funded (e.g. NASA).
- r00fus 8y agoAt some point, Google/Alphabet is going to be a solid enough backer of research. I'd say that point is already here. I mean, wasn't Bell Labs a thing?
- CamTin 8y agoThe point of Bell Labs was to save the Bell System money. That's why they developed the transistor, Unix, and all the rest: because the cost to run Bell Labs was less than the cost-savings of the inventions it produced when amortized over their whole, enormous, system. I don't see any major cost-savings that Google could have gained from hella cool four-legged robots but maybe I just don't have the imagination.
- spot 8y agoSoftBank has $100B. they didn't give it all to BD...