Self-driving cars, Fiber & Alphabet’s other moonshots lost $859m this past quarter

As long as Google’s core businesses keep printing money, Wall Street will be fine with its unorthodox arms losing cash.

The subsidiaries under Alphabet outside of Google — the 10 or so units that include its broadband effort, self-driving car and far-out medical projects — brought in $185 million in sales this past quarter and lost $859 million.