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Google sold $35B in stock in its equity raise this week, up from its planned $30B and taking its total funding to $85B; a source says it contacted ~75 investors

$35 billion  —  That's how much stock Google parent Alphabet ended up selling this week in underwritten public offerings …

Wall Street Journal Katherine Blunt

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  • @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
    $GOOGL upsized its capital raise [image]
  • @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x
    On Monday we announced an equity offering for Alphabet - part of our multi-year investment strategy to meet the AI opportunity ahead and support the demand we're seeing from enterprises and consumers. Pleased to share the offering was well over-subscribed. We raised a total of [i…
  • @dgt10011 Jeff Park on x
    Wow, what a moment to see that Alphabet is hitting the primary market to raise a whopping 80Bn dollars (consider GOOG raised less than 2Bn at IPO 20+years ago)! While the main focus has been on the unusual scale of the ATM offering alongside Berkshire Hathaway's “signal”, I
  • @thetranscript_ @thetranscript_ on x
    Alphabet CEO @sundarpichai: “In 2022, we spent ~$31B in CapEx. This year, we expect that number to be 6X larger than 2022 & 2X last year's at $180-190B. And next year, we expect it to significantly increase compared to 2026. The overwhelming majority of this spend will be in [ima…
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky
    Alphabet, Google's parent company, plans to raise $85B by selling shares to pay for AI expenditures.  —  It seems 40% of this money will go towards stock based compensation of workers.  This is a very different direction from doing layoffs to pay for AI.