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LoginYouTube started as a dating website. Instead, the three PayPal employees who started the video-sharing website became millionaires, and YouTube has changed the Internet. More video content is uploaded to YouTube in a day period than the three major U. When no one wanted to upload dating videos, they opened it up to anyone. That one thought is the difference between a failed dating website no one has ever heard of and the billion dollar site we watch today. Business success also requires some skills. Talk to us about a technical solution to push your business forward.
How do you begin to describe the influence of YouTube? Possibly with some fast stats: that videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute and over five billion videos are watched every single day. Perhaps, most telling of all is mentioning its acquisition by Google. Yet, to this day, its massive scope and scale is something YouTube co-founder Steve Chen could have never imagined. Here, Steve reflects on the early days at YouTube, how it nearly became a dating app, and how business complexities led them to their deal with Google.
YouTube started out as a dating site. On Valentine's Day -- 18 years ago this month -- cofounder Chad Hurley registered the logo, trademark and domain name for YouTube. The idea was that users would upload videos talking about themselves and what they were looking for in a partner.
However, when it was created 15 years ago, it was meant to be something different: a video-dating website. As revealed by co-founder Steve Chen, the platform was released in as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams. We were so desperate for some actual dating videos, whatever that even means, that we turned to the website any desperate person would turn to, Craigslist. The rest is history. Karim uploaded the first video.
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