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by adventured 3540 days ago
> Every company that you listed produces a product other than Ad Space / eyeballs. Even Facebook has diversified to sell something other than ads

That's an exaggeration to put it mildly. Facebook is getting nearly all of their $22+ billion in sales from ads. They have practically no revenue diversification. Google is the same. So there's nearly a trillion dollars in market cap courtesy of ads.