So Google is now Alphabet
It does more than just Internet
It's splitting apart
Shareholders take heart
This move is not one we'll regret
http://rapidnewsnetwork.com/google-inc-goog-ends-a-four-year-journey-today/205913/
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OK, so what does this mean for Google+, Youtube, and other Google products?
ReplyDeleteIs Alphabet profitable without Google's Advertising?
ReplyDeleteI assume they will change the ticker symbols at some point in the near future as well. Otherwise it is going to be very strange seeing articles about Alphabet Inc (GOOG).
ReplyDeleteAdam Black Do you mean "Are the other Alphabet subsidiaries profitable, with out the Google divisions profitability?" Or do you really mean, "Is the holding company profitable without the revenues of their largest subsidiary?" The answer to the latter is, no, of course not. I don't know the answer to the former. Clearly there are some subsidiaries which will be unprofitable at least in the short term.
ReplyDeleteAlphabet allows Google to take risks without harming their core product.
ReplyDeleteAlphabet lets the company explore high-risk innovations without distracting the public from its core services. Now, some to-be-named company can talk about self-driving cars or glucose-monitoring contact lenses without people worrying about Google and its essential services. I see it mostly as an organizational and branding change, not an operational or strategic one.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne What I meant is Alphabet profitable including its other subsidiaries; aside from what is now Google proper.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle I was more concerned that R&D was being separated with the intention to spin it off, separating it from its funding source.
American companies don't do the private the R&D they used to . Until recently.
And we've seen that happen before. Xerox.* Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
I don't give a shit about the Wall St investors, and their obsession with short term earnings. We are all better off when private companies do their share of R&D .
*They still exist ?
https://www.parc.com/
Craig Froehle Which is exactly what the guys who founded Google have been saying.
ReplyDeleteHow did your open ended question to your students turn out?
ReplyDeleteJohn Lewis It was a variant of this: I asked them whether Alphabet should spin off all the information-based services that are not related to search (e.g., Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, etc.) from Google to a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella, or keep it all united under Google? Will be interesting to see what they come up with, especially since we haven't focused much in the course on HR aspects of ops strategy yet.
ReplyDeleteI hope you can share any interesting insights.
ReplyDeleteWho knows, John Lewis ... they may surprise me and come up with some. ;-)
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