Google was VC funded. They were a classic case where VC makes sense: highly risky, and needed to spend money up front to get usage in order to make money (you c

Google was VC funded. They were a classic case where VC makes sense: highly risky, and needed to spend money up front to get usage in order to make money (you can't sell ads if you don't have traffic, can't pay for serving traffic if you don't have ad revenue, VC breaks the circle).