Early on they needed money, and a lot of it, for servers. They were highly cashflow negative and realistically only VC or outright acquisition could have paid f

Early on they needed money, and a lot of it, for servers. They were highly cashflow negative and realistically only VC or outright acquisition could have paid for it. A case could certainly be made that they took too much money, and I would agree with that, but they did need money from somewhere.