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Only disagree with the last part of your footnote. YouTube was acquired with an underpants gnomes' business model: spend $$$$ on network traffic; ????; profit!
by jeffbee 2y ago
Only disagree with the last part of your footnote. YouTube was acquired with an underpants gnomes' business model: spend $$$$ on network traffic; ????; profit! The "key advantage" that enabled YouTube was dirt-cheap global networking. And I think that is the thread that ties together all of Google's products. They are the protobuf moving company, first and foremost. Even on AI one of their key advantages is the ability to reliably and rapidly start training, literally they have blogged about their cutting-edge protobuf tsunami capabilities.
- jhalstead 2y agoWhat are you referring to with this part? > they have blogged about their cutting-edge protobuf tsunami capabilities. Not sure if you recall the blog post url or title, but I'm curious to read more.
- jeffbee 2y agohttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/the-worlds-largest-distributed-llm-training-job-on-tpu-v5e https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/the-worlds-la...
- ra7 2y ago> literally they have blogged about their cutting-edge protobuf tsunami capabilities Do you have a link to this?
- nick3443 2y agoThis is a bad take. The business model is pretty clear: subsidized new line of business using the search revenu until it is so dominant that no competition is viable, only then heavily monetize it.