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YouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion

YouTube’s cofounders could all be part of the billionaire club alongside Google's Sundar Pichai had they kept the business: It’s grown some 333x since they cashed out.

Fortune

The 'PayPal Mafia' built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is struggling

Fortune coined the term "PayPal Mafia" in 2007. Two decades later, the mafia is thriving, but PayPal isn't.

Fortune

TV set is most popular way to watch YouTube in UK, study finds

Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audience review

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YouTube is now an exhibit at one of the world’s biggest museums — and I'm shocked that 2006 is now considered 'vintage'

YouTube's watch page from 2006 is being recreated for an exhibit at the V&A museum, and I've never felt so ancient.

TechRadar

Reconstruction of original YouTube page joins V&A collection

The acquisition features the first video ever uploaded to the site, Me at the zoo, posted by YouTube co-founder, Jawed Karim, in 2005.

Evening Standard

V&A to add first ever YouTube video to collection

Museum has acquired ‘Me at the zoo’, the first clip uploaded to YouTube, as well as a reconstructed version of the early web page

The Independent UK

50 Savage YouTube Comments That Deserve An Upvote For Creativity And Humor

Proof that the real entertainment sometimes lies hidden down below the YouTube video....

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50 Savage YouTube Comments That Deserve An Upvote For Creativity And Humor

Proof that the real entertainment sometimes lies hidden down below the YouTube video....

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The founders who cashed out on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram—and missed out on becoming today's billionaires

YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram may be household names, but their founders could have made billions more by waiting to cash out.

Fortune

Steve Jobs’ first Silicon Valley boss turned down an offer to buy a third of Apple for $50,000—today, his share would be worth nearly $1 trillion

Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell missed out on becoming a trillionaire because he snubbed an offer from his ex-employee, the late Steve Jobs.

Fortune

YouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion

YouTube’s cofounders could all be part of the billionaire club alongside Google's Sundar Pichai had they kept the business—it’s grown some 333x since they cashed out.

Fortune

I used Veo 3 to recreate the first YouTube video, and the results are almost too good

We recreated the first YouTube video with Veo 3. The results are imperfect but also mind-blowing.

TechRadar

YouTube Says More Than 20 Billion Videos Uploaded In 20 Years

YouTube on Wednesday celebrated more than 20 billion videos being uploaded to the platform since the first clip debuted two decades ago.

International Business Times

From Baby Shark to Despacito, here are YouTube's most watched videos as site turns 20

Nursery rhymes and Ed Sheeran? Just what the internet was made for

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The Guardian - UK

Gangnam Style to Baby Shark: YouTube’s 20 greatest viral hits

After two decades of video sensations, here’s a reminder of the streaming platform’s most unforgettable clips – year by year

The Conversation

YouTube was born from a failed dating site – 20 years on, the world’s biggest video platform faces new challenges

When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of users. In 2016, Chen told the SXSW conference: “We thought dating would be the obvious choice.”

The Conversation

YouTube at 20: how it transformed viewing in eight steps

The world’s biggest video sharing platform, YouTube, has just turned 20.

International Business Times

YouTube, The Online Video Powerhouse, Turns 20

YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised to overtake US cable television in paid viewership.

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