Google Before: “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased toward the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” After: ~75–80%+

Google Before: “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased toward the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” After: ~75–80%+ of revenue comes from ads Facebook Before: “Facebook is not about making money… it’s about building something cool.”, “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.” After: ~97%+ of revenue comes from advertising Twitter Before: “We want to figure out a way to monetize that doesn’t interfere with the user experience.” After: ~68% of X’s total revenue comes from advertising (~85–90%+ of revenue pre-Musk) OpenAI Before: "Something something AGI" After: "But first, Ads!"