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> token 100 mil 100 mil isn't peanuts, not even for Google.
by bla3 5y ago
> token 100 mil
100 mil isn't peanuts, not even for Google.
- qzw 5y agoDidn’t they pay $150M to one guy who still stole their proprietary self-driving data and sold it to Uber? So maybe not peanuts, but not much more than almonds, either.
- tofuahdude 5y agoIts literally 1% of the balance they're discussing in the post. That's just a goodwill play.
- gpas 5y agoGoogle net income is around $60B yearly (steadily increasing), $5B a month, circa $170 millions every day. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/financials https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/financials
- rurp 5y agoIt's only 1% of the total spend here, so I'd say it clearly is peanuts to Google. Spending 1% of a project's budget on a marketing initiative is not particularly exceptional.