Forbes April 24, 2025
This month’s Google Cloud Next 2025 event was an excellent reference point for how far Google Cloud has come since CEO Thomas Kurian took the helm of the business at the start of 2019. Back then, Google Cloud had about $6 billion in revenue and was losing a ton of money; six years later, it’s nearing a $50 billion annual run rate, and it’s profitable. I remember that when Kurian started, early odds were that Google would get out of the cloud service business altogether — yet here we are.
Typically for this conference, there was so much announced that I can’t cover it all here. (Among the many progress stats that Kurian cited onstage: the business shipped more than...
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