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Youtube :

Around 25 years ago, the concept of streaming videos on the internet was unheard of and almost scientific fiction-like. However, February 14th 2005, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley decided to make this phenomena come true through their platform: YouTube. Chad Hurley was in charge of the website design, while Steve Chen and Jawed Karim were in charge of the programming of the platform. In the beginning, the website was very isolated, so the three founders decided to post Craigslist ads asking attractive women to upload videos on their website. Nonetheless, there was no success until the founders revamped the website July 2005. Since then, the website grew popular at an impressive rate, as only a year later, there were approximately 65000 videos being uploaded daily. Nowadays, over 300 hours of videos are being uploaded per minute! In addition, YouTube acts as a platform for many careers for Youtubers and small businesses. For example, 9% of companies use YouTube to promote their products and services. The reason why YouTube inspires me the most, is because the platform follows a very community based motto. Youtube’s main purpose is to share creativity and work of individuals across the world to form a tighter community. This concept is fundamental because it has connected, educated, and opened the minds of individuals all over the world. Since I have always had the dream to create my own company, I would definitely ask for advice from the founders. What did they do to help them succeed? What made them bite the bullet and take the risk of creating this website? Furthermore, I would ask the founders if they would have ever imagined that their project would blow up to be one of the most used websites internationally. As seen, I am very impressed by these three individuals and their company YouTube because it has connected individuals all over the world who share the same passion of content creating and viewing.

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