On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:04:47 -0400, "They're all DEAD, LOL!" <
kill_vaxholes@mandates.killthem> wrote:
Susan Wojcicki
"After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google
should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006."
Wiki
Global average Internet speed in 2005: 1 Mbit/second
https://futuretimeline.net/data-trends/2050-future-internet-speed-predictions.htm
Still lots of people on dialup then - "The Pew Internet Project's May
2005 survey shows that 53% of home internet users have high-speed
connections at home,"
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2005/09/21/findings/
I highly doubt in 2005, any forward thinking person could have
predicted what Youtube could be. In other words, serendipity played a
future role, not her thinking then for buying Youtube. High speed
internet is not 1 Mbit/second...later tech advancements were required.
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