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Re:Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video] by mixmax on Sunday August 29, 2010 @07:07PM (#1644820)
Or Google could have waited until youtube was bought by Microsoft. Or Viacom. Or Disney. Or Apple. Then they would have had a formidable competitor with a significant advantage.

Things just aren't that simple.

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Re:Jason Calacanis' Warning To Y Combinator Startups [video] by codexon on Sunday August 29, 2010 @07:30PM (#1644880)
I doubt every other company on that list could have made it successful. Even Google with all its "dark fiber" bandwidth has not been able to make it profitable after 4 years.

Viacom is simply not interested in running a money losing venture, otherwise they would have bought Joost instead of partnering with them. Disney didn't need the Youtube brand when they already invested heavily in go.com back in 1998. Look what happened to Hotmail dominance after Microsoft bought it. And what is Apple's experience with web apps?

So yes, things just aren't that simple.

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