it is a simple stance - if you have a product that is used by hundreds of millions of people ad monetization strategy will be found cause there are people a lot smarter than you and me that will get it done. here’s intellectual challenge - find a business with comparable number of users to openai which is not swimming in ad revenue - one will do
replyA counterpoint is that there are many products with significant usage that fail or never attempt advertising monetization. They just increase the cost of the product.
replySnapchat
replyTotal Quarterly Revenue (Q4 2024): $1.55 billion in total revenue, with $1.41 billion coming from advertising
replyBasically all their revenue is ad revenue and not too bad