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Do 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
by dotcoma 3y ago
Do 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.