Google fiber wasn't intended as a profitable enterprise. It might have been if the stars had aligned, but the goal was to have a credible threat to force ISPs t

Google fiber wasn't intended as a profitable enterprise. It might have been if the stars had aligned, but the goal was to have a credible threat to force ISPs to up their game. The alternative was Google slowly getting strangled. It succeeded enough to prevent that and they were able to pivot to a much more sustainable buildout plan with webpass. Waymo is actually one of the few ventures whose TAM might rival their ads business and they're the market leader.