[petcat]

Isn't Google a trillion dollar company going gangbusters toward its next trillion dollars?

[gotwaz]

Well currently they make about 1500 bucks a year of every american household just selling ads. Make much less on the rest of the world. So it really just boils down to what the upper limit on ad sales to the american consumer is.

[compiler-guy]

The cloud business is also doing quite well. Waymo is generating revenue now as well. So not just ads.

[usrusr]

So how much is the American household spending on Waymo, in average? It's totally insignificant.

[ethbr1]

The value of Waymo isn't current revenue, it's whether it works reliably and whether it can be scaled.

[raw_anon_1111]

Is it profitable?

[compiler-guy]

Cloud is profitable. Waymo not, but is building. In any event, the grandparent was talking about revenue.

[raw_anon_1111]

Which is completely meaningless. Anyone can sell a bunch of one dollar bills for 50 cents

[compiler-guy]

That was the proper takeaway during Amazon.com’s preprofit stages.