Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by jaxomlotus on Friday November 08, 2013 @09:23AM (#6696117)

In answer to his comment: Because you sold your product to Google.

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Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by nly on Friday November 08, 2013 @09:49AM (#6696309)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawed_Karim

For a measly $60M share. My expertise in valuing Twitter tells me he should have got at least 43.6 bajillion runes.

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Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by staircasebug on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:26AM (#6697091)

My memory is fuzzy about this, but at that time, the mpaa/riaa/etc had been coming down real hard on YouTube. Without the G or another big boy coming in, their ship would have been in a precarious situation with all of the lawsuits rolling in.

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Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by donretag on Friday November 08, 2013 @10:09AM (#6696438)

He was given stock in Google, which has more than doubled in price since then.

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Re:Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by kordless on Friday November 08, 2013 @11:41AM (#6697206)

And what, pray tell, is the limit on what is 'enough'? A billion? Two billion?

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