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How did it survive pre-aquisition?
by Obscurity4340 3y ago
How did it survive pre-aquisition?
- acdha 3y agoThey burned a lot of VC, getting market share until Google bought them and shutdown “Google Video”. They had some media deals but I don’t think they would have survived very long without the huge infrastructure support Google could offer.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoWhat was the state of the art in terms of open source ad blockers at the time, do you know? Its seems like this is more of a recent thing, cracking down on adblockers
- chongli 3y agoYouTube was founded in February 2005. Google acquired it in October 2006. It was an independent company for less than 2 years! It was growing at such a staggering pace that it was definitely going to die if it didn’t get bought soon!