In the former, the business is solving software engineering problems that very few dare to take on and the monetization model is online advertising.
Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet.
I still cannot get the analogy.
> Also, CERN in this analogy would be Alphabet.
LHC is an experiment (Almost dozen to be accurate) [1] and could be an analogy for the Google search engine as a product (or Gmail or other google products). CERN is still the organization which organize and have several other divisions like computing and engineering that serve LHC and a couple of smaller experiments. I don't think there is Alphabet analogy for LHC (maybe EU in this case but also US and a couple of other countries)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Large_Hadron_Collider_...