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There a lots of stories of how the company started, the press not being the most reliable. Check out the ACM talk one of the founders gave earlier at uiuc. I b
by jmtame 18y ago
There a lots of stories of how the company started, the press not being the most reliable. Check out the ACM talk one of the founders gave earlier at uiuc.
I believe the idea was sparked after one of the founders read a particular wired article.
- nostrademons 18y agoI thought the ACM talk at UIUC was the one I saw where they said it was based on growth in the cell-phone-video and broadband industries. Hmm, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg The genesis section starts around 25 minutes in. Looks like we're both right: they mention the Wired article at 25 minutes in, then the cell-phone video aspect (via Indian Ocean tsunami) at 29:00, and the other enabling technologies (including broadband) at 31:41.
- jmtame 18y agoLol you can see the two kids in the orange sitting on the stairs in the middle of the screen. I'll say that the stairs were very uncomfortable. I saw an e-mail that one of the founders wrote, and I can't remember where it was.. maybe at the second meeting which was private/not recorded. The contents of the e-mail were asking friends to tell their friends, and they offered to pay girls to sign up on the site and upload videos (thinking it would draw in guys). It's kind of silly to argue how YouTube started--the argument I was trying to make initially was that your code will probably be erased shortly after it's written, especially if you're not sure what your company will be working on.