{"id":27064,"date":"2024-10-04T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/youtubes-secret-history-as-a-dating-site\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:01:45","slug":"youtubes-secret-history-as-a-dating-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/youtubes-secret-history-as-a-dating-site\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s Secret History as a Dating Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mImUoaewV18?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Did you know YouTube was originally built to be a dating website? When it started to flop, the founders were forced to pivot. Now, the video streaming site brings in over $15B a year! <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Million Stories on YouTube \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/millionstoriesmedia?sub_confirmation=1<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/millionstoriesmedia?sub_confirmation=1<br<\/a> \/>Continue The Series  \u25ba All Startup Kids Episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MaXm3awhQKo&#038;list=PLUpXBFBycmhECoi7G2hIg4ZFGoxjLVrZe<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MaXm3awhQKo&#038;list=PLUpXBFBycmhECoi7G2hIg4ZFGoxjLVrZe<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Ready to launch your own idea? Create, build, and share a business idea for free with Slyngshot: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmstori.es\/3S3i9i1\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mmstori.es\/3S3i9i1<\/a><br \/>Access code: entrepreneurialdreams<\/p>\n<p> Back in 2005, YouTube didn\u2019t start as a streaming platform. It was supposed to be a dating site, started by three guys on a lonely Valentine\u2019s Day. Named \u201cTune In Hook Up\u201d, it was designed to let singles upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams. Unfortunately, they couldn\u2019t get anyone to upload a video to even test their technology. Even after offering $20 on Craigslist to any woman who would upload a video of themselves, nothing. So they decided to break up with their dating concept and instead, open the site up to anyone to upload any video they want. Yeah, that worked. Over a billion hours of content is watched every day on YouTube. This is the story of how it all happened\u2026and how it all nearly didn\u2019t happen on Make It Work. #MakeItWork.<\/p>\n<p>Watch on MillionStories.com \u25ba  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.millionstories.com<\/a><br \/>Risk takers have \u201cchildlike\u201d brains\u2014and sometimes it\u2019s a benefit<br \/>  \u25ba<a href=\"https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/money-smarts\/risk-takers-have-childlike-brains-and-sometimes-its-a-benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/money-smarts\/risk-takers-have-childlike-brains-and-sometimes-its-a-benefit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Million Stories On All Platforms<br \/>\u25ba Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/millionstoriesmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/millionstoriesmedia\/<\/a><br \/>\u25ba TikTok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@<\/a>millionstoriesmedia<br \/>\u25ba Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/millionstoriesmedia\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/millionstoriesmedia<\/a><br \/>\u25ba Twitter:  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/millionstories\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/millionstories<\/a><br \/>\u25ba Money Tips, Q&#038;A\u2019s, Special Announcements Right To Your Inbox: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/email\/subscription\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/email\/subscription<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Access All Free Content and Resources \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.millionstories.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#youtube  #startupcompany  #startingbusiness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know YouTube was originally built to be a dating website? When it started to flop, the founders were forced to pivot. Now, the video streaming site brings in over $15B a year! Subscribe to Million Stories on YouTube \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/millionstoriesmedia?sub_confirmation=1Continue The Series \u25ba All Startup Kids Episodes https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MaXm3awhQKo&#038;list=PLUpXBFBycmhECoi7G2hIg4ZFGoxjLVrZeReady to launch your own idea?&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/04\/youtubes-secret-history-as-a-dating-site\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTube&#8217;s Secret History as a Dating Site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}