Become dominant within the domain by offering an excellent product: host video forever, fast bandwidth, algorithmic boosting and suggestions, automatic captions, revenue sharing.
Gain monopoly levels of market share. Competition runs out of money.
Turn the screws. Take away what people were used to getting for free and charge for it.
Each different way to make things worse is a potential revenue stream.
Did I say new business model? This doesn't look too different from Standard Oil style predatory pricing to force competitors into bankruptcy.
It's the new business model.
Did I say new business model? This doesn't look too different from Standard Oil style predatory pricing to force competitors into bankruptcy.