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> Don't you remember YouTube in 2005 before Google's purchase? It made ends meet all by itself, apparently.

They were burning VC funding the whole time. Youtube didn't become profitable until a few years ago even with Google ads being there it took that much scale and added ads for them to start breaking even on it.




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