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Man, YouTube blowing up that fast was wild. Imagine using more bandwidth in a year than the entire internet used six years earlier. Itās like if your neighborās kid suddenly became a rock star overnight. Google buying it for $1.65 billion was a no-brainer given the insane growth. Even though YouTube wasnāt making money, they knew it was only a matter of time. The same way we all knew Karan Joharās movies would keep making a ton of cash

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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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šš¼š š±š¶š± š¬š¼šš§ššÆš² šÆš²š°š¼šŗš² ššµš² šŗš¼šš šš¶šš¶šš²š± š½š¹š®šš³š¼šæšŗ? Founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim (former PayPal employees). Initial Idea was to create an easy-to-use video-sharing
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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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Can a Joke Make Millions? The Curious Case of the Pet Rock Most of the time, startups and businesses are born to solve real problemsāwith products that aim to fix pain points, fulfill needs, or create meaningful change. But every now and then, somet
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