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There would be even greater antitrust concerns if Alphabet had a non-ads business that also brought in $100B/year. Ads is down to 85% of their revenue - they h
by Jabbles 6y ago
There would be even greater antitrust concerns if Alphabet had a non-ads business that also brought in $100B/year.
Ads is down to 85% of their revenue - they have created vast non-ads businesses which are still dwarfed by their 20% YoY ads growth.
If Google Pay/Checkout/Wallet/etc had been as successful as Stripe, would anyone have noticed? Stripe is worth $35B - 3% of Alphabet. It would just be lumped in the above 15% non-ads business and people would still say that they can't do anything but ads.
- scarface74 6y agoLast time I checked - Apple’s Mac and iPad business alone is larger than McDonalds. Cook admitted before that the Watch business is larger than the iPod was at its peak and analyst believe that their headphone business is as well. I’m not talking about market value. If market value was a good stand in first sound business model neither Netflix (with negative cash flow) nor Uber or Lyft would be worth as much as they are. I’m talking about profit.
- Jabbles 6y agoNot concentrating on profit seems to have served Amazon rather well.
- scarface74 6y agoAmazon didn’t concentrate on profit (standard disclaimer I work for AWS) they did concentrate on free cash flow. They didn’t have to keep borrowing money to grow. Netflix is also borrowing money for an “asset” that is worth less over time - content.