It’s happening across a lot of industries, especially tech. During covid line went up very fast. Post-covid line stopped going up fast, but companies are desperate to keep it going up fast. Otherwise it would count as a slowdown in year-on-year growth and we can never ever have that (/s).
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roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm curious what's driving this revenue rush at google. It almost feels like something internal, like they're trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.
Seraphin@pawb.social 11 months ago
been_jamming@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Companies then: Let’s make money!
Companies now: Let’s make more money faster! Our graph of profit must concave up!
Companies 100 years from now: Let’s increase the rate at which the rate at which our growth in profit increases increases!
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They want the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the derivative of the function of money over time to be positive.
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
companies want to maximize profits
skribe@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I’m expecting YT to be spun off/sold within a year.
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't think it'll happen willingly. They don't want it to be a drain on their cloud business and they don't want it to use AWS either.
galoisghost@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It’s not just Alphabet it’s cloud based companies across the board and basically VC money is drying up because it can be secured on 0% interest loans anymore
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
Alphabet would be less impacted by interest rates or VC money since they're a megacorp. I'm curious if for them they are afraid of not being competitive enough if they get trust busted.
BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m wondering if they’re looking for more money to dump in the AI war going on right now.