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Sorry, honestly but you sound to me like of this “European” attitude you’re fighting against. Basically you’re suggesting investing large amounts of public mone
by wwtrv 5y ago
Sorry, honestly but you sound to me like of this “European” attitude you’re fighting against. Basically you’re suggesting investing large amounts of public money (because no sane VC would invest enough capital to build an alternative YT) not driven by actual business needs (you know that you can just host videos directly on tour own server?) but instead some weird ideas about avoiding “national embarrassment”.
If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would already exist, but they don’t. Given the current consumer preferences no independent free video streaming could compete with YT unless Google was broken up into multiple companies.
- n8cpdx 5y ago> If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would already exist, but they don’t. The same could be said for anything that doesn’t always exist. > because no sane VC would invest enough capital to build an alternative YT Perhaps no European VC. The premise of a VC is that you fund things that aren’t a sure bet, on the hopes that a few ventures will be successful. VC has always been high-risk, high-reward, and you don’t need to start at YouTube scale. It is possible to start with modest funding and grow from there. > Given the current consumer preferences no independent free video streaming could compete with YT unless Google was broken up into multiple companies. Vimeo continues to exist. As does DailyMotion. As does twitch. As do Chinese alternatives. Stop making excuses for businesses.