<div dir="auto"><div>When my sponsorship budget is Google's total profit, I hope there's going to be a lot of conferences that year.... 🤣<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2019, 4:11 PM Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I played with some numbers the other day. While for LGM, $20,000 represents a significant sum, using the numbers from 2017, the most recent year available, this represents something like 0.03% of Google's profits for that year. 2017 was a bit anomalous since it included a multi-billion dollar write-down, so in a more "normal" year that 0.03% figure would be much less.<br>
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If there is any point to this, I think that we are right to be circumspect about the process and leverage that Google may get from what represents for them a teeny contribution.<br>
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Greg<br>
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