The Dropouts Who Invented YouTube from a Rat-Infested Office

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I am thankful for the founders creating YouTube because if it wasn't for YouTube I wouldn't be here to this day

There’s always a small story behind every big creation.

Investors: call YouTube cute. Investors Years later: calls cat video on YouTube cute.

Google video back then was technically superior than YouTube. The only difference was the kind of content found on these platforms? Academia preferred posting on Google Video, leaving Google Video with loads of boring videos such as Calculus lessons and speeches about success. While YouTube was preferred by ordinary users, posting travel videos and random fun stuffs, pets (yes, cat videos are irresistible), gossips and celebrity scandals, and amateur music (My Space back then which was the #1 social media site before Facebook was heavy with musically inclined users promoting their music and they used Youtube to post their recordings). So while Google Videos was technologically advanced and YouTube was struggling to keep up with internet bandwidth demand and lesser video quality, YouTube eventually won because of the variety of non-boring content you can find in it. After Google bought YouTube, the Google tech and its almost unlimited bandwidth came to YouTube eventually. The lesson here is that, consumers will come to your product not because it's technologically advanced but because it's useful and fun.

Watching a series of company stories makes me realize that founders took their past working experience as a drive to start something that will change to future.

Its really ironic that you posted this on YouTube. Great video as always Hook!

Great video! It really is an eye opener, but let's not forget, these three guys were not kids in their parents basement, but people who knew the internet is going to be big! Just WOW on what their did and what they went through!

I found out years later I was born in the same city as one of the founders of YouTube. I never met them however.

Until now, I find it ridiculous that rodents would had something to do with YouTube’s early history in the first place.

I had the pleasure of working with Steve at PayPal. Never knew him that well and the YT stories. Thank you for this

Congratulations to the trio. This story is a great motivation for every young person who has started business to pesevere to achieve success.

I hope youtube recommends this video to millions of people😊

Can’t wait for Me at the zoo part 2!!

From rat infested office to ads infested site.

Well what do ya know. It started out in a rat infested office, and now the entire thing is ran by a rat. Interesting how that comes full circle.

And then it went downhill from there.....Demonetization, Censorship.....need I say more?

Thank you Hook. I am really grateful to these 3 great collaborators of my favourite site ever! You guys totally rock 💜😎

Probably the greatest story on this subject to date. A well presented , researched, & delivered, content topic on this success story. Big up to hook 👍👍👍

I never know YouTube started out like that, and when I saw this vid on my recommendations I knew I had to watch it cuz I watch YouTube often and when I do watch I'm inspired to become a YouTubers and make content of my own.