it was financed mainly by Sequoia, the venture capital firm. Previous investments for them included Apple, Paypal, Cisco and ironically Google itself. They put $11m in, which gave them around 30% of the equity. Plus those rumours of spending $1m a day on bandwidth were just that - rumours - and way off the mark.
💬 The guys who set up youtube made a quid or two then...
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