Morgan Stanley Predicts YouTube to Be a $20B Business

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4 points·sinzone··6 comments

When companies get more revenue by allowing full albums on YouTube compared to selling the cd/mp3, it's possible that YT are on a exponential curve upwards.

Good read: http://www.volokh.com/2012/12/28/copyright-and-full-albums-o...

This is the same Morgan Stanley that values Facebook at $100bn.

If anything I'd say they have undervalued YouTube, but who cares what Morgan Stanley thinks after the amount of mess ups they have impossed upon the public. I sure don't and with that I don't think I could ever trust them with anything to do with money ever again.

FB may yet be a $100bn company, if they can figure out intent and search.

They've got lots of time and no Rupert Murdoch to run them into the ground. I wouldn't bet against them (although I wouldn't bet on them right now either).

What is the point of these "valuations?" It's credible to say that YouTube might be a relic in 2020. How many web companies have a lifespan of 14 years?

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