Countering SemiAnalysis: Highlighting Google's Internally Built Billion-Dollar Businesses
zacharynado · x · 2026-08-11
Pushing back against SemiAnalysis's claim that Google never builds anything internally and only acquires innovation, the author points out that Google has developed core products like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Cloud, and Waymo in-house, all of which have grown into massive billion-dollar businesses.
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