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Do you know how much money Google has ever invested in Waymo ever?

I tried to search for a number, but couldn't come up with much. Obviously, this number would be very important in judging whether self-driving will be a loss for them.



> Google had spent $1.1 billion on the project [1]

The wikipedia also mentions Waymo raising ~2B and ~3b rounds that IIRC Google participated in as well. I'm surprised its so low honestly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo


Thanks. I should have thought to check on Wikipedia!

If you are willing to wait and just judge by eventually realised revenue, Waymo might still turn out to be a loss. But if you judge by current valuations (which reflect informed investors best guess of future revenue streams), then even after a recent major decrease we still have 30 billions USD.

That looks pretty decent for an investment of 1.1B + ~3B total.




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