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No, Google is the perfect investment for VC. Most founders (or anyone for that matter) can't afford the huge data centers that Google needs. That server farm c
by jorgem 18y ago
No, Google is the perfect investment for VC. Most founders (or anyone for that matter) can't afford the huge data centers that Google needs.
That server farm costs a lot, and therefore the required investment is a huge barrier to entry.
That business model is perfect for VCs, and that is where they should focus.
- pg 18y agoThe server infrastructure they have now costs a lot, but they've paid for that entirely by themselves. When they became the default search on Netscape, they had 30 computers.
- nostrademons 18y agoI thought that was Excite? I don't recall Google becoming the default search on Netscape until FireFox. I remember that when all my friends first started telling me to use Google (1999/2000, well after they had 30 computers), we still had to type in www.google.com to get there. And I was a die-hard Netscape fan then. Edit: Never mind, they switched over to Google in July 1999 (http://searchenginewatch.com/2167331 http://searchenginewatch.com/2167331), when it was quite possible that they still had 30 computers.
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