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The first YouTube video

October 13th, 2006 9 comments

Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow…

Here’s the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. This is one of the company’s three founders Jawed Karim, currently a grad student at Stanford.

Yes, this is how a $1.65 billion company got started.

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If you can’t beat them, buy them

October 11th, 2006 42 comments

Does it make sense for Google to spend $1.65 billion to buy YouTube?

Sure it does – as long as they’ve figured out how to solve THE PROBLEM…

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Numbers, numbers and more numbers

October 1st, 2006 Comments off

Tracking the Internet video world – which practically no one was tracking just a year ago – has become a full time business for some.

Here are some of the more interesting numbers people have dug up recently…

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