YouTube was almost a very different site...

[00:00] If this idea actually worked, YouTube [00:01] would look nothing like it does today. [00:04] No creators, no tutorials, no viral [00:06] videos, nothing. Back in 2005, the [00:08] founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and [00:10] Jawed Karim were trying to solve a [00:11] problem. People couldn't easily upload [00:13] and share videos online. So, they built [00:15] a platform to fix it. But the type of [00:17] videos they expected completely [00:19] different. They thought people would use [00:20] it to introduce themselves like [00:22] recording short clips about who they [00:24] are. They even tried to pay people to [00:26] upload videos, but no one did. Because [00:29] YouTube was originally meant to be a [00:31] video dating site. That idea failed, so [00:33] they opened up to any kind of video. And [00:36] the one pivot turned YouTube into the [00:38] platform that now runs the internet.