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Evans: Samsung once controlled half of the global Android market by volume
“Samsung had half of the Android market by volume, more or less, and so that was kind of concerning for Google, that you had this big, powerful partner.”
Liebert: Google cgroups provided the foundation for Docker containerization
“The roots there are actually, well, the roots lie actually at Google. So, four or five years ago, Google contributed, ah, cgroups to the Linux kernel. And cgroups are the foundation for what is now Docker, right?”
Google unified Apps, Android, and Chrome leadership under Sundar Pichai
“They now have Sundar Running both apps and Android and Chrome, so they've got, again, they've got all the future stuff under one person”
Evans: One-third of the global Android market operates without Google services
“There's two-thirds of Android, which is the one that Google gives numbers for, is outside China, and then there's another third of Android, which is in China, and doesn't have Google Play on it or Google Maps on it”
Apple holds 10% and Android 45-50% of global phone sales
“In as much as Apple has about, well, in the launch quarter, they have about 10% of all the phones sold on Earth, and Android has another 45 to 50% although only about two-thirds of those are Google Android and one-third are in China and don't have any Google s…”
Chen: Oil companies make Apple, Amazon, and Google look small
“Not many companies make the tech giants like Apple and Amazon and Google look small, but the oil companies definitely do.”
Rampell: Roughly 25% of Google's most expensive keywords are insurance-related
“25%, more or less, of the most expensive keywords on Google are insurance related.”
Evans: Tech giants occupy the top five spots by market valuation
“Today, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and yes, Microsoft are all the five, are the five biggest companies on the stock exchange.”
Evans: Apple holds $237 billion in cash, Google holds $73 billion
“Apple, meanwhile, has two hundred and thirty seven billion dollars in gross cash on its balance sheet. Google has seventy three billion dollars.”
Evans: Big Tech annual capital expenditure reached $34 billion in 2015
“Annual capex across these companies has gone from one billion dollars in 2000 to thirty four billion dollars in 2015.”
Casado: Waze grew to 50M users on $70M before $1B Google acquisition
“Waze started in about, I think it was 2007, and it went through three rounds of funding, probably got seventy million dollars in total, and within five years, It had a mass, I think, fifty million users and was sold to Google for a billion dollars.”
Evans: Tech brands comprise 40% of top 100 global brand value
“So technology brands are now 40% of the value of the top 100 brands. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon are almost 20%.”
McCullough: Google manufactured physical enterprise search appliances until around 2020
“I think they were still manufacturing those as recently as two years ago, by the way.”
Simudis: Alphabet successfully integrates corporate venture arms with core operations
“For me, a very interesting example is what Google is doing with Alphabet. And the reason I find this interesting is because you're seeing their venture capital groups working in tandem with their, the rest of the corporation.”