Monday, October 16, 2006

Who has the last laugh?


You could not imagine Sergey Brin and Larry Page doing this:

Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the 20-somethings behind YouTube, are caught on video the day they agree to sell their company to Google for $1.65bn.

The hand-held camera sways as they spout corporate-speak about how they are still going to “develop the most innovative service” for their users, then collapse into giggles over a joking allusion to the catch-line from a Burger King advertisement.


This is what Eric Schmidt, Google CEO thinks of the deal (not quite as exicting though):

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7fb41ef4-5a31-11db-8f16-0000779e2340.html