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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.

• recode.net

Each subsidiary will not break out its own performance, but the earnings reports will offer some view into their costs and output. Before then, Re/code is unpacking one Alphabet company a week*, presenting the facts, figures and, just maybe, the financials behind the silos of the world's most ambitious company.
So far, we have:

Nest

Access and Energy

Google Ventures

Verily

Google Capital.

Up next: Calico.

Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico, a new firm incubated by Google with the audacious aim to extend human lifespans.

Although Calico formed two years before Alphabet, it had many of the markers Google's co-founders outlined as their rationale for the holding company. A startup staring down a moonshot issue? Check. A problem with a very long time horizon? Check. Google's tech savvy applied to a market well outside its domain?


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