Google Alphabet and four times the research budget of DARPA and larger moonshot ambitions than DARPA

Google’s revenue is continuing to grow at about 20 percent a year and is on pace to generate approximately $60 billion this year.

Google will have $20-24 billion in operating income and $12-14 billion will be spent on research and development in 2016. These amounts are still growing at 20% per year.

The NY Times provides some insight into Google by focusing on Founder and ex-CEO Larry Page.

Larry Page managerial modus operandi is to take new technologies or product ideas and generalize them to as many areas as possible. Why can’t Google Now, Google’s predictive search tool, be used to predict everything about a person’s life? Why create a portal to shop for insurance when you can create a portal to shop for every product in the world?

Inside Google, Mr. Page is known for asking a lot of questions about how people do their jobs and challenging their assumptions about why things are as they are. In an interview at the Fortune Global Forum last year, Mr. Page said he enjoyed talking to people who ran the company’s data centers.

“I ask them, like, ‘How does the transformer work?’ ‘How does the power come in?’ ‘What do we pay for that?’” he said. “And I’m thinking about it kind of both as an entrepreneur and as a business person. And I’m thinking ‘What are those opportunities?’”

Another question he likes to ask: “Why can’t this be bigger?

Larry Page is dedicated to “moonshots” like interplanetary travel, or offering employees time and money to pursue new projects of their own. By breaking Google into Alphabet, Mr. Page is hoping to make it a more welcoming home for employees to build new businesses, as well as for potential acquisition targets.