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Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by wp381640 on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:23PM (#21097973)
you're right that Google X is a money sink - one of the first things Ruth Porat did when she came in is take an axe to it as it had been a sore point with instutitional investors for a while

"lets do Google X but with $100 billion" is a laughable business model

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Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by tim333 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @12:17AM (#21098406)
>Google X is a money sink

Dunno. I'm not quite sure of the figures but in 2015 they put in $3.5bn for the year. Against that Waymo which came out of X was recently valued at $105bn (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/waymo-valuation-cut-40percen...)

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Re:Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300M, then things got messy by seganddr on Friday September 27, 2019 @10:43PM (#21098066)
Unless your goals are wealth redistribution and job creation and science...
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