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Android was tiny and far away from launching when it was acquired. And the YouTube acquisition was definitely considered crazy at the time.
by bla2 11y ago
Android was tiny and far away from launching when it was acquired. And the YouTube acquisition was definitely considered crazy at the time.
- _delirium 11y agoYouTube wasn't considered crazy at all by the time Google bought it. It was clear by then that it was a runaway success, so clear that even traditional media companies like Viacom and News Corp were bidding for it. It certainly wasn't some small company that Google grew from nothing into dominance; it was a billion-dollar company that had already won its space. Some articles from the time: http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technology/google_youtube/ http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/09/technology/google_youtube/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/10/09/google-has-acquired-youtube...
- aniket_ray 11y agoSo was Myspace when AOL acquired it.
- _delirium 11y agoMyspace was not acquired by AOL.
- bla2 11y agoOther articles form the time: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-cuban-says-google-is-crazy-with-youtube/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-cuban-says-google-is-crazy...