How was the decision made to begin soliciting donations for the website?
Soon after the site launched, after a few months, it started growing too fast. We had some ads on there but it wasn’t enough to cover the costs. So we had to either shut it down or solicit donations. What was the money you made through donations and ad sales used for? It primarily went to bandwidth and servers. We didn’t have any other costs to cover because it was just a part-time nights and weekends hobby project, and most of us had day jobs to support ourselves. It’s been mentioned that Crunchyroll has a full-time staff. When did people start working on the site full-time? Late 2007 or so. Four of us just decided to leave our jobs and tackle the site full-time. We covered the basics for ourselves while we worked and were talking to investors, and part of what drove us to come on full-time was investor interest. At that time, was the money coming in from donations – was anyone using that to support themselves? No. Never. None of it ever made it into the pockets of any of the staff? I
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