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Uh, ads were Google's initial business plan. Saying it was their worst decision is like saying founding Google was a mistake.
by yongjik 3y ago
Uh, ads were Google's initial business plan. Saying it was their worst decision is like saying founding Google was a mistake.
- dotcoma 3y agoDo you have a deck from the very early days, like 1998 or 1999, in which Google say that they will monetise the service via ads? I am not so sure ads were the initial business plan. I think the initial plan was to take care of search for portals like Yahoo! and eventually sell the company to them. Larry and Sergey at one point asked Yahoo! for $ 1 B, were told “no”… and the rest is history.