🚨 GOOGLE BOUGHT YOUTUBE FOR $1.65 BILLION IN 2006. IT NOW GENERATES $50 BILLION IN REVENUE EVERY SINGLE YEAR.

And if you look deeper into Google's venture capital bets, the numbers get even more extreme.

- In 2006 Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube. Everyone called it overpriced. YouTube had no revenue, no business model, and was drowning in copyright lawsuits. Today YouTube alone is worth an estimated $550 billion and makes $50 billion a year. Google turned a $1.65 billion purchase into a $550 billion asset.

- In 2013 Google put $258 million into Uber when it was still a small startup. By the time Uber went public that stake was worth over $5 billion, a 20x return.

In 2015 Google invested $1 billion into SpaceX. SpaceX is now valued at $350 billion. That $1 billion bet is now worth over $21 billion.

- In 2023 Google put $3 billion into Anthropic. And then google committed another $40 billion on top of that. Anthropic is currently valued at $380 billion with investors reportedly offering to fund a round at $800 billion. Google owns 14% of Anthropic. At $380 billion that stake is worth $53 billion.

At $800 billion it is worth $112 billion. They put in $3 billion.

Sequoia, Andreessen, every top VC firm on the planet would trade their entire portfolio for Google's top three bets alone.

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