It makes more sense if you think about how 2006 looked like: - the only way to money in 2006 was advertising and the idea of advertising in internet videos was

It makes more sense if you think about how 2006 looked like: - the only way to money in 2006 was advertising and the idea of advertising in internet videos was borderline crazy (remember when internet was tv but without ads?) - it was just one of many potential interesting players. To think it could've been Vimeo, but the founders cared more about their main project: collegehumor