787
Kagi now has a Fediverse Forums search toggle (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
154 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
Screenshot showing Kagi with Fediverse Forums search toggle
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[+] -13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Aaah! So you weren’t around when YouTube was add-free for over a decade.

EDIT: it’s amazing how many people flock to defend the monetizing of YouTube and how they run their shit, yet so many people whine about how they monetized.

I wonder if they’re the same people.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Over a decade of running at a loss. That is only possible for companies, like Google, that are already very rich.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Actually that's a quite typical time for tech start-up to break even. The whole time they're funded by business angels.

    But for some cases, the loss can be considerable, and still the "start-up" keeps finding investors. Ex: Uber, lost 30 G$ on over 14years before turning around. Or just look at all the AI pure-players companies right now.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Yes, that's quite typical, if you manage to find a rich investor. But that only happens if you have a way to eventually make a profit. If you say from the start you're never going to have ads or subscriptions so you're never going to make money with this, you're not going to find an investor.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago*

    YouTube started with a lot of angel funding, which is why it eventually monetized in the way that it has

    YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million,[20] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an additional $8 million in the company, which had experienced significant growth in its first few months.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent