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Google Subsidiaries: The List Of Companies Owned By Google [Alphabet]
Google (now Alphabet) is a tech giant worth over a trillion dollars, which started as a search engine to navigate the web, and over the years it acquired other companies like YouTube, Android and it placed other bets on what the company defines as “moonshots.” Among the other bets, there are companies like Verily, Nest, Access, and Waymo.
What makes up the Google’s Empire?
Google has a diversified business model, primarily making money via its advertising networks that, in 2019, generated over 83% of its revenues, which also comprise YouTube Ads. Other revenue streams include Google Cloud, Hardware, Google Playstore, and YouTube Premium content. In 2019 Google made over $161 billion in total revenues.
Google generated over $116 billion from advertising revenues in 2018, which represented 85% of its total revenues. Of those revenues over 70% came from traffic via Google main properties (Google search engine, YouTube, Gmail, and others). Google’s main properties are monetized primary via a cost-per-click mechanism. Network members sites are primarily monetized on a cost-per-impression basis. Google also spent over $26 billion in 2018 to sustain its traffic on both its properties and as a revenue-share mechanism with its network members (AdSense and AdMob).
YouTube was acquired for almost $1.7 billion in 2006 by Google. It makes money through advertising and subscription revenues. YouTube advertising network is part of Google Ads, and it generated more than $15B in revenues in 2019. YouTube also makes money with its paid memberships and premium content.
Under the hood of Google’s 161 billion in revenues (2019), it hides an accounting item called “other bets.” That accounting item might hide the next big thing in technology and business. Yet, as Alphabet shows its “other bets” on its financials, we can try to understand where Google’s hidden gem is and where the future of technology and business might be heading toward.
Moonshot thinking is an approach to innovation, and it can be applied to business or any other discipline where you target at least 10X goals. That shifts the mindset, and it empowers a team of people to look for unconventional solutions, thus starting from first principles, by leveraging on fast-paced experimentation.
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