Naw dog, just wanted to point out your one sentence reply didn’t do what you thought it did, because it was using an assumption made under a status quo to argue against the status quo.

You’ve definitely got me curious though - do you have actual numbers for operating expenses?

Here’s where I’m coming from - in my experience, it’s not uncommon for someone barely breaking 6 figures in salary to cost the company 300-500k. Take into account senior staff, and imo we can just say each full time staff costs the company 500k. And that’s just for companies I’ve had experience with, which has benefits and compensation nowhere near as nice as googles.

I casually looked around the internet and saw the that YouTube had roughly 2000 full time engineers, so the numbers come out to, with my shitty assumptions, 833 million a month.

I’m going to say that’s the minimum, because as I said earlier, YouTube employee compensation and benefits are leaps and bounds better than mines, and we’re not taking into account the additional cost of bandwidth and hardware.

I gotta go head out so that’s as much sleuthing as I can do - care to do some number crunching for the bandwidth end of costs, so your revenue statistic can be reasoned with alongside a lemmings estimate of operating costs?