Sheryl Sandberg

This is about, do we want our companies to succeed?

You know, it's such a good question, and I was at Google in some of the early years, and then I went to Facebook, you know, now Meta.

And I do think there's times when it really makes sense to invest ahead of revenue and business models, right?

If Google, when I was there in the early days, had tried to cover our costs for search, we never would have gotten enough search out there to get enough user feedback to improve the search results to get to what was a great business for Google.

So it makes sense.

At some point, at some level, you have to have revenue that covers costs.

Is that from ads?

Well, people make it so complicated.

It's not complicated.

Ready?

Someone has to pay.

Who can pay?

Businesses can pay.

They can pay via advertising.

They can pay via paying in some way, shape, or form for database services.

Or people have to pay.

And it will be a combination of all of these things.

But over time, the revenue is going to have to cover the costs.

I'll be David Sachs.

I'll be David Sachs.