YouTube Was Operating at a Loss When Google Bought It

question 43

Multiple Choice

YouTube was operating at a loss when Google bought it.Three years later it was still operating at a loss.Google may have experienced ____.

• A) intuition
• B) escalation of commitment
• C) empathy
• D) risk propensity
• E) political forces

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Definitions:

Social Change

The transformation over time of the institutions, culture, and structure of society.

Exponential Growth

A process of increase where the quantity grows at a rate proportional to its current value, leading to rapid escalation over time, commonly used in reference to populations, investments, and infectious disease spread.

Unilinear Evolutionary Theory

The assertion that there is only one path through which an organism or society can evolve.

Universal Evolutionary Theory

A concept in sociology that attempts to explain the development of societies from simple to complex forms over time through a process of evolution.