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Google-Motorola

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Motorola Mobility was a mobile device company acquired by Google in 2012 and sold to Lenovo in 2014.

We dig behind Google-Motorola's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Chicago, United States
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Acquired by Google in 2012 and sold to Lenovo in 2014.

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The Counterfactual · Decision Forks
The Motorola Loss Math Forgets the $2.35B Set-Top Sale and the 17,000 Patents Google Kept
The story is that Google paid $12.5B for Motorola and dumped it on Lenovo for $2.91B, eating a ~$9.6B loss. That math forgets the $2.35B set-top sale, Motorola's cash, and the one asset Google never sold: roughly 17,000 patents.
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