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The various subsidiaries of Alphabet

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Alphabet is the holding company which owns Google and a number of other companies:

Alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

Here are the various subsidiaries of Alphabet:

Google
Internet-related services and products
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

Google Fiber
Fiber-to-the-premises service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinni-jain-1127041/

Loon
High-altitude balloons for Internet access
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC

DeepMind Technologies
Artificial intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepMind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis

Waymo
Autonomous driving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krafcik

Wing
Drone-based delivery of freight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_(company)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-burgess-374b84/

Verily Life Sciences
Life sciences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verily
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Conrad_(geneticist)

Calico
Biotech and combating aging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_D._Levinson

Sidewalk Labs
Urban innovation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Labs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_L._Doctoroff

X
Semi-secret research and development facility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Teller

GV (formerly Google Ventures)
Venture capital (seed stage)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GV_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Krane

CapitalG (formerly Google Capital)
Private equity (later stage)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapitalG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lawee

Liverpool needs its own Kevin De Bruyne: Kai Havertz

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Last night, Manchester City destroyed Liverpool 4-0.

It’s easy to look for excuses: bad luck (Salah’s post and Mané’s miss…), fatigue (after winning the Premier League after 30 years and partying for days), etc.

But, for me, the key difference, last night, between Liverpool and Manchester City was Kevin De Bruyne who, with his millimetre passes to Sterling and Foden, was out of this world and wrecked havoc in Liverpool’s midfield and defense. It would be great if Liverpool could bid for him but, surely, he’s too expensive and, in any case, Manchester City would be mad to sell him to a direct rival.

Enter Kai Havertz.

He currently plays at Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga. Like Kevin de Bruyne, he is an attacking midfielder but is left-footed (and, therefore, will complement Naby Keïta, who is right-footed, and Fabinho quite well).

A comparison between Kai Havertz and Kevin de Bruyne is difficult to make given that Kevin de Bryune has won so many titles and competitions while Kai Havertz has nothing to show yet except that he is a regular at Leverkusen and has started playing for the German national team. But Kai Havertz is only 21 and I’m sure that Jürgen Klopp can mould him into something special.

Kai Havertz is in high demand right now with a lot of rumours of big teams wanting him.

Let’s see what happens.