Gawker.com video clip: "YouTube Founders: New Money, Same Old Virginity"

[Human Torch]

October 10 2006
YouTube Founders: New Money, Same Old Virginity

http://www.gawker.com/news/clips/youtube-founders-new-money-same-old-virginity-206428.php

Never before have we wanted so badly to punch our monitor: check out this adorable video from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, explaining their record-setting $1.65 billion sale to Google. If the the shit-eating grins and smug giggling weren't bad enough, Hurley hits a whole new level of presumption as he explains, "This is great. Two kings have gotten together..." King, eh? Future moguls, be warned: all it takes is maybe 90 minutes of being a billionaire to become an expert in the hygienic combination of vinegar and water.

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[wtmusic]

1. Good for them

I hope all that money makes them happy.

[Atman]

2. Smells acrid and bitter in here!

Congratulations to "the two kings." They personify the proverbial American Dream, and should be allowed to wallow in it all they want for a few days. Mr. Gawker, maybe if you had created something as curiously popular as YouTube, you could be a king, too. Instead you sound like a bitter also-ran.

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[Human Torch]

7. Yep...definitely some sour grapes.

Gawker is one of the snarky little gossip sites. No way to accurately predict if he / she would "become an expert in the hygienic combination of vinegar and water" in the presence of $1.65 billion dollars. Guess we'll just have to wait and see...

:evilgrin:

[NewInNewJ.]

3. Good for them!! I liked it.

[Pharaoh]

4. good for them

they had a great idea and it paid off for them, I hope they use some of that money for good things....
like helping the poor.....

[Atman]

5. Considering how much DU probably helped get them there, maybe...

...the "good thing" could be a donation!

If not DU, I'm certainly open to some cash! You listening, kings?

:)

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Where are the tin foilers on this sale?

Doesn't Google have the right to censor video clips? Let's say that an activist films something juicy. Can they remove it if it's too politically sensitive to the right?

[northzax]

9. YouTube reserved the right as well

you are, after all, using someone else's property, at no cost to yourself, for entertainment. What do you want from them?

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. I just thought that, peripherally, I remember seeing posts about how

Google was favoring the right with its search engines. i.e., right-wing slanted articles popped up first. I don't know much about how these search engines work, so I could have misunderstood the posts.

[Atman]

11. That was the first thing my wife said when she heard.

Google once sent me a warning and pulled my paid ads because I sell a bumper sticker that says "BUSH=LIAR." They said I could not sell inflamatory stuff via Google. I sell many that are much worse, but they had an issue only with this direct reference to Bush. I wrote their legal department and provided a long, documented list of Bush's lies, and asked for them to explain how my sticker could be considered inflammatory if it was merely pointing out a documented fact.

They didn't budge. So I "went public" on DU among others. I'm not saying that that had anything to do with Google changing their policy, but about five or six weeks later Google changed their policy about carrying "political" ads.

So yes, this could be a matter of concern, but Google is nothing if not smart. They know what makes YouTube what it is, and if they start censoring, their 1.6 billion will have been just flushed down the drain as the hipsters on the internets abandon them in droves, and move on to the next hot thing.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Thanks for the info.

Also, if they get too NSA over the videos, what's to stop a competing, underground business to start up?

[eallen]

8. Good for them. They've provided a free service that millions like....

It was a bit of good luck that they received such a big payoff in the end. But luck favors those who go out and do such things.