props & respeck to Chad Hurley, CEO & Co-Founder of YouTube, for speaking at our June Startup2Startup dinner this past week, sponsored by Mohr Davidow Ventures & Charles River Ventures.
Chad gave a terrific talk (with no powerpoint!), as chronicled by several in attendance such as Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee / GigaOm, & Brian Solis (who took awesome pix).
I was lucky to spend a short time working with Chad at PayPal, as well as other co-founders Steve & Jawed, before the three of them left to start YouTube along with some other amazing ex-PayPalers. Over the next year or so, I had a front-row seat watching YouTube grow from an early alpha site to mainstream craze thru acquisition by Google into the full-blown video juggernaut it is today.
Here is a brief video clip intvw i did with Chad before the dinner:
Here is video Liz shot of Chad's talk (ironically posted on blip.tv, not YT):
(additional clips were also taken via cellphone by Daniel Brusilovsky, teen-tech entrepreneur & community evangelist at Qik)
For those geeks interested in learning more about YouTube API & technology & and their growing developer program, i encourage you to join me on July 10th & check out the Powered by YouTube Day at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA (more info on the YouTube API blog).
Definitely lots of kudos for him speaking at the event but I bet even more people would have loved to heard him speak if YouTube was making the money they should be making in revenue.
Posted by: Social Marketing Journal | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 08:37 AM