5 years ago, a top exec said Google's cloud would drive more revenue than ads by 2020. Google's first peek at the numbers shows that it's off to a good start, but way off that vision. (GOOG, GOOGL)

5 years ago, a top exec said Google's cloud would drive more revenue than ads by 2020. Google's first peek at the numbers shows that it's off to a good start, but way off that vision. (GOOG, GOOGL)

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· *In 2015, top Googler Urs Hölzle made a big prediction: By 2020, Google would make more money from the cloud than it does from ads. *
· *It's now 2020, and Google Cloud revealed that it did $2.6 billion in revenue for the last three months of 2019 — a minuscule fraction of the $46 billion that Google parent company...

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