[john-radio]

YouTube was delivering an average of 100 million video views per day in July 2006, months before the Google acquisition for $1,650,000,000 that same year. It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."

[sam0x17]

Likewise doubleclick was HUGE in the ad space I remember seeing all the doubleclick.com urls in slow page loads

[FlyMoreRockets]

How many views per day does YouTube now deliver per day?

[athms]

>It's inaccurate to characterize them as a "tiny startup."

YouTube had 65 employees when they were acquired.

I do agree that they were not a startup. This word should only be used for companies that are starting up; getting their legal structure together, hiring, and initial R&D. Once you are offering widgets (ad space), you are no longer a startup. Profitability is immaterial to startup status.

[Judgmentality]

Why does the number of employees matter? If anything that's a testament to how valuable they were, to be able to do so much with so little.

[athms]

It doesn't. My comment was about the word tiny" and 65 is tiny especially when compared to Google.

[ulfw]

And Instagram had like what... 8?

Not every company that's successful and has millions of users needs to have a bloated org

[romanoderoma]

WhatsApp had 55 employees before FB acquisition