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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
17 Mar 2020 Acquired The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
“When Google says, “We generated $15 billion in revenue in our YouTube segment last year,” there's an argument about if that's even revenue. They chose to report it as revenue and have higher revenue, lower gross margin percentage business line there rather than I think what you could have done and said, "We have $7–$8 billion revenue here.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 17 Mar 2020
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- Acquired
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…Crazy. A million might be high, $100,000. Compare that against YouTube where they pay something like half of their revenue out to creators. When Google says, “We generated $15 billion in revenue in our YouTube segment last year,” there's an argument about if that's even revenue. They chose to report it as revenue and have higher revenue, lower gross margin percentage business line there rather than I think what you could have done and said, "We have $7–$8 billion revenue here. " This is DMV.…
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