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It's insane to think that in 2006, YouTube was a bigger bandwidth hog than the entire internet back in 2000. Google was clearly onto something huge. Buying YouTube for $1.65 billion when it wasn't even profitable was like betting on a cricket team thatās not winning yet but has a ton of potential. Weāve all seen how that gamble paid off big time, huh?
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In November 2006, Google acquired YouTube for a staggering $1.65 billion in stock. This was just 18 months after YouTube's creation. What's lesser-known is that YouTube's success was so massive, it was using more bandwidth in 2006 alone than the ent
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These kids sold a video-sharing website for $1.65 billion in 2006. Then vanished overnight. Today, that site is worth over $455 BILLION dollars. Here's why they walked away from the most valuable website in history: Meet Chad, Steve, and Jawed: t
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š„ From Dating App to Empire: The YouTube Story In February 2005, three former PayPal employees launched a site called YouTube. Their original idea? š A video dating site. The slogan: āTune in, Hook up.ā It flopped. No one uploaded dating videos.
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How a Valentineās Day Flop Became a $183 Billion Empire On February 14, 2005, YouTubeās domain was registeredānot as a video-sharing giant, but as a dating website with the slogan: āTune in, hook up.ā The idea? People would upload videos to find l
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This is a beast Yesterday I created an n8n automation That basically gets the latest videos from my favorite YouTube channel Transcribe those videos After that it will convert it into a text file Then at last the file gets uploaded to my dr
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Youtube's Great Pivot YouTube, the video-sharing platform that has become an integral part of our daily lives, had a rather unconventional origin story. Initially, the founders envisioned it as a dating site where users could create videos introduci
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From Odeo to Xā The Wild Journey of Twitter! In 2005, podcasting was booming. A startup called Odeo, co-founded by Evan Williams, was betting big on it. But then Apple announced podcasts on iTunes. Game over. The Odeo team needed a pivot. Jack Dors
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