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What Is The Future of Work?

Jan 14th

Posted by Kent Beatty in Digital Life

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This post was originally published at TweetValley.com

In the future, location will not matter…

Say goodbye to cubicle nation…

Think about this:  The Future of Work is YOU!!!

Wherever You are…

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YouTube – The Story

Aug 14th

Posted by Kent Beatty in Business

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YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley

“How We Did It”

Chad was the speaker for June 2008 Startup2Startup dinner.

He told the story of how YouTube was started by the three co-founders – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal who were looking for a solution to easily upload videos for sharing.

In October 2006 Google aquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion.

Chad was a designer at PayPal where he created the PayPal logo.

See Also:

Chad Hurley: How We Did It by Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee.com

Chad Hurley, YouTube CEO/Co-Founder, talks to entrepreneurs @ June Startup2Startup dinner by Dave McClure at More >

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