🚨 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.
If you invested $4,635 in $AMD at its 2015 low, you would be sitting with $1,000,000 today.
The stock is now up 21,500% since its 2015 lows.
AMD was days away from bankruptcy in 2015. The company was selling off its own buildings just to pay employees. Lisa Su took over as CEO and refused to let it die.
Now it is the only real threat to Nvidia's AI monopoly. Even after hitting an all time high of $347.81 this week, AMD's market cap of $567 billion is still only 11% of Nvidia's $5.1 trillion valuation.
If AMD captures just 50% of Nvidia's current market cap, that same $4,635 initial investment would be worth over $4.5 million.
Cursor, an AI coding startup co-founded by Pakistani-born Sualeh Asif, is reportedly set for a potential $60 billion acquisition deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The company, known for its AI-powered code editor, has rapidly grown, attracting millions of developers and major enterprise users. SpaceX has secured rights to acquire Cursor later this year or pay $10 billion for collaboration.
Asif, originally from Karachi and an MIT alumnus, represents a new wave of Pakistani tech talent. His success highlights innovation-driven entrepreneurship, earning praise as a role model for youth beyond traditional wealth paths.
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🇷🇺 Russia just "PASSED" the crypto regulation bill to allow businesses and companies to use crypto as payment for cross-border and foreign trade settlements, even under sanctions.
$BTC and $ETH are expected to be the first assets approved under the framework