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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by UncleMeat on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:51AM (#34726920)
People say “free money spigot” but I don’t understand it. Google has 120b in the bank. How was it able to leverage nearly zero interest loans before? Why isn’t new risk free (nominal) growth on cash a benefit considering they have so much cash?
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Re:Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff by sokoloff on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:02PM (#34727129)
All of Google advertisers were able to make use of easy/cheap money to fuel their own business, in which they bought Google and YouTube ads with part of that money.
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