Google Cloud

also referred to as: gcp

part of Google includes Google Cloud Next

13 statements across 10 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2023 by Jason Calacanis · said 138 times in 55 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (49), David Friedberg (48), Chamath Palihapitiya (22), Sundar Pichai (8), David Sacks (5), Thomas Laffont (2), Brad Gerstner (2), Sergey Brin (1)

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Everything said about Google Cloud, oldest first

Apr 28, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Google Cloud achieved profitability for the first time in Q1 2023
“Google announced a seventy billion dollar stock buyback plan and that their cloud unit was profitable for the first time in its history.”
Jason Calacanis Apr 28, 2023 ▶ 1:18 E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
Apr 12, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Friedberg: Enterprise cloud market has no lock-in for AWS, Azure, or GCP
“The cloud is a wide open competitive market right now. Like there is no AWS lock-in in this market. There's no Azure lock-in. There's no GCP lock-in”
David Friedberg Apr 12, 2024 ▶ 16:21 E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
May 24, 2024 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2029
Chamath: Nvidia will likely compete directly with GCP, AWS, and Azure
“So I think it's likely that Nvidia goes on a full frontal assault against GCP and Amazon and Microsoft.”
Chamath Palihapitiya May 24, 2024 ▶ 37:05 Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
Jul 26, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: Google Cloud generated $10.3B revenue and $1.2B profit last quarter
“GCP in the last quarter did 10.3 billion in revenue, which is up from eight billion in revenue the year before in the same quarter the year before. And importantly, in this past quarter, they're running at a 1.2 billion dollar operating profit out of GCP.”
David Friedberg Jul 26, 2024 ▶ 10:00 Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
Sep 10, 2024
Disclosure
Sergey Brin: Google Cloud turns away customers due to compute shortages
“For us, we're kind of building out compute as quickly as we can, and we just have a huge amount of demand. I mean, for example, our cloud customers just want a huge amount of TPUs, GPUs, you name it. You know, we just can't, we have to turn down customers beca…”
Sergey Brin Sep 10, 2024 ▶ 9:24 Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024
May 16, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Pichai: Google Cloud is supply constrained this year
“We are supply constrained this year in our cloud business”
Sundar Pichai May 16, 2025 ▶ 39:02 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
May 16, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Pichai: Half of Google's 2025 compute CapEx is for Google Cloud
“Looking at twenty-twenty-five and looking at the compute part of the span half of that is going towards our cloud business in twenty-twenty-five.”
Sundar Pichai May 16, 2025 ▶ 18:55 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
May 16, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Pichai: YouTube and Google Cloud reached $110B run rate last year
“Last year, we exited a combination of YouTube and cloud at hundred and ten billion dollars.”
Sundar Pichai May 16, 2025 ▶ 14:29 Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet | The All-In Interview
Jun 21, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Lafont: Synthetic index of AWS, Azure, and GCP is all investors need
“Well, I think all four of us would agree that if we could synthetically own AWS, Azure, and GCP, if I could somehow automagically create an index of all three of those businesses, right, over the next five years, you wouldn't need to own anything else.”
Thomas Laffont Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 1:36:44 IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg compares revenue run rates and growth for AWS, Azure, and GCP
“AWS has a hundred twenty-four billion dollar revenue run rate. Microsoft, one hundred twenty billion, and Google Cloud, fifty four billion. But AWS, which is slightly larger than Microsoft, is only growing 17% year over year. Microsoft's 26% year over year, an…”
David Friedberg Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 30:03 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya predicts AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud will split market evenly
“So there's all these reasons why eventually all these three big companies will converge effectively, roughly a third. We're going to debate the path to get there, but that's where they'll end up.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 33:04 NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
May 1, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Jason Calacanis: Google Cloud grew 63% year-over-year to $20B in a quarter
“Google Cloud, which includes the Google Suite, that grew 63% year on year. Let that number sink in. 63% on twenty billion in revenue. That's in a quarter.”
Jason Calacanis May 1, 2026 ▶ 42:06 OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
Aug 7, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Calacanis: Google Cloud posted record 82% year-over-year revenue growth
“Well, if you look at Google Cloud, they posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth, which is something we've never seen in the history of these cloud providers.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 12:35 Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
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