[mdorazio]

And multiple that by let's say 50K/year fully burdened cost per employee (assuming locating them in low-cost areas) and we've now added a minimum of $125 million per year in overhead for a service that already probably doesn't make much money.

[sinatra]

> we've now added a minimum of $125 million per year in overhead

Which is <1% of the revenue that YouTube generated last year? Still a meaningful number. But, not unmanageable.

[mdorazio]

At what profit margin, though? I've never seen actual YouTube numbers broken out in a financial statement.