{"id":1816,"date":"2007-10-18T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/18\/google-lean-mean-cash-machine\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:38:37","slug":"google-lean-mean-cash-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/18\/google-lean-mean-cash-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google = lean, mean, cash machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even when you’re expecting a pretty amazing financial performance — as just about everyone (including me) was from Google’s latest quarter — it’s still something to see<\/a> a company that is firing on pretty well all cylinders and has a commanding share of the market it operates in. I expect that watching Microsoft in its early years was very similar, as it came to dominate the desktop operating-system business and turned into a gigantic cash-manufacturing machine.<\/p>\n

I know that there are many things that could happen to derail the Google train: online advertising could go soft, click fraud could become a bigger issue, etc., etc. It’s not as though bigger companies haven’t suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of a curve before. It could happen to Google. <\/p>\n

At the moment, however, the company is at the top of its game — it’s in a dominant position in a rapidly-growing market, and despite having $15-billion or so in revenue, it is still growing at double-digit rates<\/a> every quarter. That means it could very soon be a $30-billion company, and then people who thought $500 a share was too expensive are probably going to feel very foolish.<\/p>\n

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Even when you’re expecting a pretty amazing financial performance — as just about everyone (including me) was from Google’s latest quarter — it’s still something to see a company that is firing on pretty well all cylinders and has a commanding share of the market it operates in. I expect that watching Microsoft in its … <\/p>\n

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