Re:United States vs. Google
by john-radio on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:53PM
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YouTube was delivering an average of 100 million video views per day in July 2006, months before the Google acquisition for $1,650,000,000 that same year. It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."
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Likewise doubleclick was HUGE in the ad space I remember seeing all the doubleclick.com urls in slow page loads
Re:United States vs. Google
by FlyMoreRockets on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:17PM
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How many views per day does YouTube now deliver per day?
>It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."
YouTube had 65 employees when they were acquired.
I do agree that they were not a startup. This word should only be used for companies that are starting up; getting their legal structure together, hiring, and initial R&D. Once you are offering widgets (ad space), you are no longer a startup. Profitability is immaterial to startup status.
Re:United States vs. Google
by Judgmentality on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:56PM
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Why does the number of employees matter? If anything that's a testament to how valuable they were, to be able to do so much with so little.
It doesn't. My comment was about the word tiny" and 65 is tiny especially when compared to Google.
And Instagram had like what... 8?
Not every company that's successful and has millions of users needs to have a bloated org
Re:United States vs. Google
by romanoderoma on Thursday October 22, 2020 @04:26AM
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WhatsApp had 55 employees before FB acquisition