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Shock and/or horror
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wtf

i want $884m
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Christ! Wasn't YouTube set up like a year or so ago by two people from California or something? Rich mofo's
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It was $1.65 billion
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You sure it wasnt $1.65 billion?
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$884m clearly wasn't enough
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884m pounds

Youtube was set up by 3 ex-PAYPAL employees
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The 2 guys are now also employed by google.
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quote:
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The 2 guys are now also employed by google.


Employed? I'd tell them to GTF and live the life of pure luxury

[Edited on 09-10-2006 by Nath]
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I'd love to work for google.

Free food and most of the day is spent playing pool.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm
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so, ex paypal employees eh?
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quote:
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I'd love to work for google.

Free food and most of the day is spent playing pool.


Your CV would have to be longer and more impressive than the bible for them to bother hiring you though

[Edited on 09-10-2006 by All Torque]
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Only a few weeks ago they were tryingto think of a way to make money from Youtube... guess they managed it
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Probably.

I think they'd also employ you if you showed something they really liked though.
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they bought shares, so the people who created it still run it and google own it
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Im betting they have little say how its actually run and the direction its heading, probably just do the shitty day to day running of it.
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quote:
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Christ! Wasn't YouTube set up like a year or so ago by two people from California or something? Rich mofo's


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youtube
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Summary
The headquarters of YouTube are on the second floor of this modest brick building in downtown San Mateo, California. The first floor is occupied by a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant. The YouTube entrance is the small door between the two restaurants.

Photographed by user Coolcaesar on October 2, 2006.
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NI-MO
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haha never noticed that!
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I look out for anything resembling you all day long
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mmm i could now fill this thread with some reall dodgy pictures , but i feel its not such a wise idea
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u2u

No, joking, please don't
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so these guys just buy a huge hard disk and rent some bandwidth.... and sell it for 1billion...

its always the most simplest of ideas!!

[Edited on 10-10-2006 by Siberia]

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