4 ms·
>>“no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.” Fair, but where did that $19 BILLION cam
by onetimemanytime 9y ago
>>“no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.”
Fair, but where did that $19 BILLION came from? $19B for a company making $20m a year
- beagle3 9y agoThe company making $20m/year was seen as a threat by a bigger company making, at the time, $2000m/year. So the bigger company, worth something like $100B at the time, decided it was worth forking $19B to eliminate that threat. It's that simple.
- onetimemanytime 9y ago>>So the bigger company, worth something like $100B at the time, decided it was worth forking $19B to eliminate that threat. Missed the point. They hated ads but they got the money ads made possible. FB with no ads can't even pay for hosting