YouTube ft. Steve Chen - 18 Months That Changed the Internet
This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot that succeeded against all odds.
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Show Notes
This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot that succeeded against all odds. When cofounders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim left PayPal to start YouTube, it wasn’t even clear that the nascent broadband infrastructure could support playing video in a browser. In a brief period until its acquisition by Google—from its first incarnation as a video dating site to confronting daunting technical and legal challenges—the early story of YouTube is an underdog tale of scrappy upstarts who ended up changing the world.
Host: Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital
Featuring: Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, Zahavah Levine, Colin Corbett, Yu Pan