Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group

Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by enos_feedler on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:26PM (#22331895)

Pretty low considering the growing market size. We are just at the beginning of cloud movement and it’s already generating significant revenue

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by scarface74 on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:27PM (#22331907)

Revenue != profit.

And isn’t that the pitch of every startup? We are worth $billions because the size of the market is $billions x 10 if we only capture $a_small_percentage.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by enos_feedler on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:45PM (#22339510)

It's hard to believe cloud won't be profitable. You are selling one of the world's greatest engines of innovation (computing) using a proven delivery model (internet services). Combine that with very low execution risk, since big tech has been self-consuming computing as a service over 20 years of growth. It would almost be irresponsible to leave this opportunity on the table. If Google lands in third place $a_small_percentage is actually quite large.

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