https://marco.org/2007/12/03/there-is-no-money-input-into-this-system-except
There is no money input into this system except venture capital. I remember a time, long long ago, when tech companies spent their own venture capital on each other, so revenues were all booked from the same small pool of money. Yeah, as I recall, it didn’t end well.
— uncov on the “business” of Facebook applications