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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

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺? 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

Russia Fines Google $2.5 Decillion This is for failing to restore 17 Russian TV channels on YouTube. The fine exceeds the total wealth and asset value on Earth.😂 To put this into prespective, it's 20,75,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,000 crores INR.

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

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲: 𝗔 𝟮𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗻! In 2005, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim launched YouTube from a San Francisco garage, aimi

This decision shocked Silicon Valley: Google, at its peak, decided to rebrand. No one understood it at the time. But that one move unlocked $100s of billions in value... Here's the full story: Google had a big problem: it was doing too much—sear

So what is network effect? A network effect is when each additional user adds value to the existing user base. So your users themselves are creating some value for the existing users. So ,to understand better understand that google is the only one

How a Valentine’s Day Flop Became a $183 Billion Empire On February 14, 2005, YouTube’s domain was registered—not as a video-sharing giant, but as a dating website with the slogan: “Tune in, hook up.” The idea? People would upload videos to find l

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Top News of the Day: 1. India’s VC funding soars 69.7% to $883.2 million in Jan 2025 2. Indian AI models get to learn from Doordarshan's classic TV archives 3. Moglix raised ₹107.58 crore from Singapore parent since December 4. Glance, a mobile-f