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Eric Siu breaks down Google's major acquisitions and investments, from YouTube and Android to stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, showing how these deals built dominance in ads, operating systems, and AI.
Eric Siu breaks down Google's major acquisitions and investments, from YouTube and Android to stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, showing how these deals built dominance in ads, operating systems, and AI.
So Google is the Berkshire of tech. They own 14% of Anthropic, so Claude. They own 8% of SpaceX. They acquired, I think Google Ventures or whatever you call it, acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. That's a backbone of Google Ads. Most people don't know that, right? You and I know that. Acquired YouTube for $1.6 billion in 2006, worth hundreds of billions today. They do more revenue than Netflix, okay? Acquired Android in 2005 for $50 million, now the world's most widely used OS. Acquired DeepMind in 2014 for $500 million.
