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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: the founders of YouTube. 3 friends who stumbled into creating the world's 2nd largest search engine. And their journey? It's wilder than any viral video: they had an idea... A video dating site. "Tune in, Hook up" was its tagline. Thankfully, it bombed. But their next idea changed entertainment forever: YouTube launched from a garage in February 2005. No fancy offices. No big investors. Just 3 guys with a simple mission: The first upload? 18 seconds of Jawed at the zoo. It went from a garage project to a cultural phenomenon in just a year. Their next move would reshape media forever: October 2006: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion. The founders became instant tech royalty. As we all know, YouTube today is a behemoth.

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