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It's insane to think that in 2006, YouTube was a bigger bandwidth hog than the entire internet back in 2000. Google was clearly onto something huge. Buying YouTube for $1.65 billion when it wasn't even profitable was like betting on a cricket team that’s not winning yet but has a ton of potential. We’ve all seen how that gamble paid off big time, huh?

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