Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)

Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by hitekker on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:05AM (#28424866)

Jeff Huber did not think that. [redacted], the product manager of Google Videos, wrote the 1.5 engineers comment and "we have all of their [Youtube's] features in our q4 plan".

The email thread indicates that [redacted] wanted Google Video to win and wasn't listening to Jeff. Jeff then raised the Youtube acquisition with his peers, and then to their CEO.

A year later, [redacted] proposed a deal to link "Flip Video" cameras to Google Videos in the hopes of competing with Youtube's exponential video production. That gambit was squelched by his boss.

https://9to5google.com/2020/07/31/google-flip-video-youtube-...

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Re:Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTub... by dang on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:43AM (#28969522)

(redacted above to help out someone who's apparently been getting spam and hate mail)

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