Loading ...Heard of these three guys ? Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. They were PayPal employees who started a little website in their free time for users to upload their own videos for everyone to see, the one we known as YouTube today.
YouTube Broadcast Yourself
Take a look at their timeline of events:
January 2005: The three young friends chat at a dinner party about the need for software that would make it easier to share video files.
February 2005: The YouTube.com domain is registered.
May 2005: The site opens to the public.
Late 2005: They secured funding from Sequoia Capital, which kept servers from going down as people flocked to the site in vast numbers.
June 2006: the site announced that 2.5 billion videos were watched on the site during this month alone.
August 2006: The Wall Street Journal reports the company hosts over 6 million videos and boasts over half a million subscribers.
October 2006: Google completes a deal to acquire the company for $1.65 billion.
That’s an amazing course of events to occur just over a year and a half but it happened for them.
Why can’t it happen for you?
Don’t get the wrong impression, this kind of success doesn’t come easy; it involves a tremendous amount of hard work and a fire burning passion to keep you motivated on a daily basis.
Don’t settle for the safe bet, push the limits and expand your horizons.
Take calculated risks, what’s the worst that can happen?
At least you can tell yourself, you went for it!
