Tuesday, October 2, 2012

The Real YouTube.com story. How I gave Chad Hurley the idea for YouTube.com

        I was finishing up another fun and exciting day of work in the Eberly College of Business computer lab at Indiana University of Pennsylvania at 8pm. I was the last person to leave the lab, as usual. As I closed the door behind me, I saw a guy coming in the side door of the building. There was nothing else open in the building but the computer lab and he looked like he was in a hurry to get there.
     I said to him"I guess you're here to use the computer lab. It closes at 8pm. It's exactly 8 now". He looked disappointed and tried to convince me to let him in. I think he thought I ran the computer lab.
    I said to him"The computer lab in the computer science building is open till 9 but you might not make it there on time because it's all the way on the other side of campus. I would use that lab but I live right across the street from this one. I come here all the time to work on my website". He suddenly got really interested.
     "You have a website?"he asked."What kind of website? I want to start a website but I can't think of a website to start. Can you give me a good idea for a website?"
     I said "My website is called GoGetItNow.com. It's an internet portal that combines the free search capabilities of Yahoo, the free web pages of Geocities and the free email of Hotmail into one interface. It gets 10 million page views a day, makes $5000 a month and it's doubling every couple of months."
     Now He was really excited. We introduced ourselves to each other. He told me his name was Chad and he was a graphic arts major on a track scholarship. We talked as we walked to the front doors of the building.
     Chad persisted "I have been learning html on my own in my spare time. If you could give me a great idea for a website, I am sure I could make it work".
     We walked out the doors of Eberly and toward a yellow Jeep. "Is that your Jeep?" I said.
     He said "Yes" in a way that kind of implied he didn't like it.
     "I love it" I said. "My step dad has one just like it but his is black. It might look better if it was black, but it is kinda cool and different. I am driving that little red 3 series BMW over there, but I would much rather drive an American car. That Beamer makes me feel like a pretentious yuppie...I miss my Camaro I traded for it. I love cars, but I can't get into Nascar. Isn't it strange how there is no formula one racing team in America? When you make billions from this idea I give you, you should start a formula one racing team in America."
     He said "That's a great idea. I will. Now what's your idea?.
     I said "I will give it to you, but first, you have to promise me three things. When you are super rich, you have to let me hang out on your private island, ride around on your yacht, and you have to give me 1% of the company."
     He said impatiently "Okay."
     I repeated "You promise to give me 1% of the company?"
     He reiterated "Yes. I promise. Now what's the idea?"
     I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone will ever give you. Just do what I say and you will be successful."
     Chad eagerly said "I will".
     I said "Okay. In the future, television and internet will become one. People will start using their cell phones like camcorders and making videos".
     Chad looked confused, and for good reason. At that time, they were just coming out with camera phones and there was a rumor of a cell phone that could take 5 second video clips of poor quality, but not many people knew about it except for those that kept up with such things like myself. And television and internet were considered two very different things back then. Despite his skepticism, I convinced him it would happen and continued.
     "When they take these videos, they are going to want to share them with friends, family and the world. They will need a website to do that. It will be called something whimsical like Yahoo. What's a funny thing to call a tv? I got it. BoobTube.com." We laughed for a while and talked about how it had the word "Boob" in it and sounded like an adult website.
     I said "Take the word "Boob" out and put in another word. The website is about people sharing videos...put a pronoun in there...conjugate the verb...I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, and I said "You" twice. YouTube.com. That sounds good."
     We said "YouTube.com" back and forth to each other a couple of times and agreed that it sounded great.
     It is well documented that Chad said he used boobtube, a way to refer to television, that later became YouTube.com. I gave Chad the name YouTube.com and used boobtube as a guide.
     Chad anxiously awaited the rest of my idea. He was hanging on my every word.
     I said "No offense, but you are on an athletic scholarship studying graphic arts at a low level state school, so the first thing you have to do is get a job in the .com industry. Do you have a portfolio of graphic designs you can send to .com companies to show them that you can design logos and graphics for them?"
     He said "Yes. I can put a portfolio together".
     I said "Find out which .com companies look like they are growing fast and send them your portfolio".

It is well documented that Chad Hurley applied to and got a job at PayPal.com where he designed the logo.
     I said "When you get the job, you will need two things. You will need to find really smart Asian and Indian guys from top level technology oriented universities with advanced degrees in computer science for credibility and to program the website."
     Chad got Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, the Asian and Indian guys to help him with the website.
I said "And secondly, you will need to beg borrow and steal money to get the website going and keep it going. Finding the most bandwidth for the least amount of money will be a top priority too because all those videos will use a lot of bandwidth."
     Chad got a lot of cheap bandwidth from a company in the area.
     I continued "Some videos will get shared with others and they will share them and so on. There will be exponential growth(we didn't call it viral back then because of the negative implications). Everybody will get their 15 minutes of fame and some people will become stars."
     YouTube.com did get big fast and grew exponentially as I predicted. We really started seeing how big something like this would be.
     I said "It will be like everybody has their own channel on tv on the internet."
     YouTube.com allows users to create their own "channels" as I stated to Chad. We marveled at the possibilities for awhile, and then got back to reality.
     I said "It will take so much money to do something like this. You will be able to make a little bit of money selling ads around the videos and in the videos like commercials, but you won't make real money until you sell YouTube to a company with more money than brains like Yahoo(Google didn't exist yet), and if GoGetItNow is big enough by then, I will buy YouTube."
     Chad Hurley did sell YouTube to "A company with more money than brains". That company was called Google.com and he sold YouTube.com to Google.com for approximately $1.65 billion.
     I said "It's going to take so much money, you will need to constantly go around to venture capitalists, angel investors, banks, and anyone you can get to listen to you to raise money, but make sure you never give up controlling interest in YouTube. Give up percentages of the company for money, but never so much that you lose control of the company.
     Chad was able to retain 20% of the company, which was controlling interest. Steve Chen kept 19% and Jawed Karim got a small percentage since he left the company before it was sold. Chad was able to get approximately $330 million for the YouTube.com idea I gave him.
     I continued "When you ask for money for YouTube, you are going to have to tell them it's your idea or you won't have any credibility. They aren't going to give you any money if you tell them I gave you the idea. Make up a story about how you and some friends were at a party taking videos and you wanted to share them with each other and couldn't so you created a website to share videos with each other called YouTube."
     The official story of how YouTube got started is that Chad, Steve and Jawed were at a party taking videos with their phones and couldn't share them with each other so they created YouTube.com. That is the exact story I told Chad to use. It has since been discounted as untrue by Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The actual story of how YouTube.com started is I gave Chad Hurley the entire idea from domain name to exit strategy. It is this story.
     We started talking about ways to raise money, and I had another brainstorm. I said "You know what you will have to do? You will have to marry a rich girl. Make a list of the richest women in the area, start at the top and follow her around. Do whatever you have to do to get her pregnant and marry her."
     That was such a shocking statement, we had to stop and think about it for a while. It really is the best way to get rich. Get a rich girl pregnant and she will have to marry you.
     Despite it sounding like a joke, we agreed he would have to do it, and it seems like he did. He crashed a birthday party for someone he didn't know where a woman named Kathy Clark was. They are married with two children. Kathy Clark is the heiress to the Silicon Graphics fortune and her father was on the Forbes list of the riches people. He is also a venture capitalist and I don't think YouTube.com would've made it through the lean years without the help of Kathy Clark and her billionaire venture capitalist father.
     By now, it was 9pm and all the computer labs were closed on campus. Chad needed to find a list of .com companies to send his portfolio to and a list of rich women to marry, so I said "The only thing that is still open where you can get that kind of information is the Giant Eagle grocery store magazine rack. Go to Giant Eagle and get the Forbes list of the richest people magazine to find a rich girl to marry and one of those Wired magazines with a list of the fastest growing .com's to get a job at".
     It is well documented that Chad Hurley found PayPal.com, his first job after college with a .com company, from a Wired magazine.
     After the excitement of our conversation, I asked him where he hangs out in Indiana.  He said he doesn't really go out much. They have parties in the cross country house. I asked him when he is graduating from IUP and he said he was graduating this semester and was just back to pick up the last of his things. He didn't want to hang out with me. He wanted to go to Giant Eagle and get started on YouTube. I reiterated the promise he made to give me 1%, he agreed he would fulfill his promise, and we parted ways.
      I never thought much about Chad, the YouTube.com idea I gave him and the 1% he promised me after that. I just worked really hard on GoGetItNow until two things happened that ended my dream. First, as I was trying to take GoGetItNow public, the .com bubble burst. Smith Barney called me a week before the  meeting with them to go public and said they had to reevaluate .com's and basically, they weren't interested anymore.
     Then, my website went down. I called my server administrator, Chris, at Cyberwurx, and he said it was on Network Solution's end. I called Network Solutions and after getting bounced around from one person to another, someone said "rogue call center workers" at their India office were cancelling domain names that were popular and renewing them privately. The company that took GoGetItNow is still in existence. It is called ITSSN.com. There was a class action lawsuit, but I don't believe it went anywhere because I don't think anyone knew who stole all the domain names and they couldn't be extradited.
     I let my dream die and went back to college using grants and loans from FAFSA. I went on to become a stock broker for Merrill Lynch, got laid off, and became a Social Worker and got laid off. I reentered the .com world recently after sharing some of my ideas with friends who encouraged me, but had no credibility, so venture capitalists wouldn't help me.
     I was talking to some folks at Alphalab, an internet incubator on the South Side of Pittsburgh about how I gave Chad Hurley the idea for YouTube.com and how Chad sold it about 10 years after I gave him the idea for $1.65 billion. They suggested I get in touch with Chad. I was a little confused as to why I hadn't tried to contact Chad before. He knows I have good ideas and promised me what amounts to about $16.5 million. Why was I trying to get backing for my new ideas from people that didn't know how good my ideas are and don't owe me $16.5 million?
     For the first time in 10 years, I tried to contact Chad. I connected with him on Twitter and I was blocked. I tried to friend him on Facebook. I was blocked again. I found his phone number and talked to his housekeeper, I think her name was Anne, for about a half an hour. She was very nice and said Chad would definitely want to talk to me about my new ideas. I emailed Chad at all his email addresses. I applied for jobs at Google, YouTube, Avos, Delicious and all the companies Chad was involved with. I never got a response.
     I emailed Roelof Botha, one of the first venture capitalists to back YouTube.com. I don't think he believed me when I emailed the story of my involvement with YouTube. He thanked me for the "color" in the email I sent him. I don't think he believed me or wanted to believe me.     
     Chad never contacted me in any way. I searched the internet to see if there was any mention of me and YouTube. I found an old newspaper clipping that said YouTube was a play on words from BoobTube. That's how I came up with the name. I found the story I told Chad to tell people about how he and some friends were taking videos at a party and couldn't share them with each other so he created a website with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim called YouTube. There was no mention of me and why would there be? I told Chad he would have to lie and he did.
     My searching led me to a guy named Herb that said he invented YouTube and we messaged each other for a while on YouTube. I found out Herb had an attorney in Pittsburgh. The attorney met with me and said he couldn't represent me because they already represented Herb. I said "Why would you represent somebody who lied and not me when I am telling the truth?" He indicated it was simply a conflict of interests, but I should continue to try to reach Chad. I was never able to reach him.
      It was suggested that I document my story or even write a book by some filmmakers so that is what I am doing.
     The rest of this book is about what Chad did after our conversation outside the Eberly College of Business computer lab at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
     My hope is that Chad will fulfill his promise and give me the 1% or approximately $16.5 million he promised me. If he does fulfill his promise, we can work together on the other projects I have ideas for and I may even take the real story, this story, off the internet to protect Chad's reputation. If Chad doesn't want to work with me, maybe this would make a nice documentary in the style of "Social Network" and maybe I will get what was promised to me anyways.



     Everyone has ideas...cheese in pizza crust, Doritos tacos...but have you ever come up with a world changing billion dollar idea, got a promise of 1% and not had it fulfilled? I did.
     It's funny how sometimes life comes down to one defining moment...an epiphany...divine intervention. Do you make a left or a right? One path leads to success beyond your wildest dreams. The other leads to disaster. It's time for the truth to be told.
     My defining moment...the one that makes me who I am today...was a two hour conversation I had with a guy named Chad Hurley, the co-founder of YouTube.com in the late 90's at Eberly College of Business outside the computer lab.
     I got out of the military a few years before and had gone back to college at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I was supposed to be taking classes, but I found out that I was not eligible for the G.I. Bill I was promised. Sergeant Vincent, our First Sergeant, lied to my face and told me I would get it to get me out of the military. So I moved in to an off campus dormitory called Mcgregor hall until I could figure out how to get the G. I. Bill I was promised. It was the least expensive living arrangements I could find and for good reason. It was little more than a cockroach and rat infested hellhole. The only good thing about it was that it was directly across the street from the newly erected Eberly College of Business. The computer lab in Eberly had the best facilities on campus.
     There was a lot of talk about people starting websites out of their dorm rooms and garages and getting rich and until I could figure out how to pay for college, I would go over to the computer lab and work on being a .com billionaire. The only problem was I knew nothing about computers.
     My first computer was a Packard Bell I got for Christmas ten years earlier when I was about 14 years old. I hooked up my Prodigy internet to the phone line in our house and stayed online for the whole month. We got a $500 phone bill that month, and my mom put the computer in a closet and locked it. We didn't know that the 30 days of free internet service didn't include the dial up phone service calling a long distance number.
     So ten years later when I was about 24, I asked my uncle who worked at IBM if he could get me a cheap computer. He got me an employee discount on a top of the line IBM desktop computer. It was awesome. It was jet black and the floppy disk drives popped up from under the monitor when you pressed down on them. Unfortunately, I was too poor and cheap to get internet access, so I would go over to Eberly's computer lab every day and learn how to be a .com billionaire.
     Right around that time in the mid 90's, my mom was making a lot of money with .com stocks and tried to convince me to invest in some .com companies, but I noticed the .com companies weren't and never planned to make any money. People were just throwing money at .com companies. I wanted to have money thrown at me like that. I didn't want to just invest in stocks.
     There was a steep learning curve for someone who hadn't used a computer in 10 years. It took me a long time to figure out how to register a domain name. Back then, you had to go to Network Solutions and pay $45 a year for a domain name. That seemed really expensive to me, so I got free websites at Geocities and Angelfire.
     I noticed a major problem with the internet. Every time I tried to search the internet on Yahoo, check my email on Hotmail and work on my free web pages at Geocities and Angelfire, I had to open four windows and the computer would freeze up, so I made a website that was a combination of the search capabilities of Yahoo, the free email of Hotmail, and the free web pages of Geocities.
     It got fairly popular, so I decided to register a domain name. I called it GoGetItNow.com. The search box was from a company called Search Traffic. They paid me 5 cents a search. The email was from a company called Big Mailbox and the free web pages were from a company called Free Community. They split the banner ads on the top of the web pages with me 50/50 and let me configure the accounts so that your email and web pages were the same username like gogetitnow.com/username and username@gogetitnow.com.
     GoGetItNow.com was a pretty revolutionary concept and, as far as I knew, there was nothing else like it at the time. It caught on quickly and after a few years, I was getting as many as 10 million page views a day making as much as $5000 a month and it was doubling every couple of months. It was right around that time that I met Chad Hurley about 5 years before he became the co-founder of YouTube.com.



     When Chad Hurley and Eric Skaggs parted ways that one fateful day in the late 90's outside Eberly College of Business at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Chad knew he was on a mission of epic proportions...but it would have to start now.
     Chad went to the track house and packed the rest of his things into his Jeep and headed to the Giant Eagle magazine rack. He got the Forbes magazine with the list of the richest people in it and a business magazine with the top internet companies in it. He headed home to a little suburb outside Reading, PA and made two lists...a list of the richest single women and a list of the top internet companies. He got his portfolio and resume together and sent them to all the top internet companies, and put the list of the richest single women away for later.
     Nobody was responding to his portfolio until, one day, a company called PayPal called him for an interview. They wanted him to design them a logo. He got started right away. He sent them his logo and PayPal loved it. They offered him a job and he took it. It wasn't Chad's first choice on his list of places to work, but it was the only offer he got.
     Chad loaded up his Jeep and headed to Silicon Valley. Chad met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim at PayPal. They put Chad's logo up on Paypal.
     Later, they would work together on Chad's YouTube idea. The first part of the plan Eric Skaggs gave Chad Hurley was working perfectly.
     Chad went to a birthday party and met Kathy Clark. She was the daughter of Jim Clark, one of the richest men in the world and the CEO of Silicon Graphic. He married her and had two children. Please help me with the research by leaving comments, questions and suggestions and please subscribe and check out some of my websites. Thank you, Eric Skaggs, EricSkaggs.com , TheYouTubeGuy.com , IInventedYouTube.com , 3DYouTube.com , BuckGet.com
    
    

    

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  1. Hi Eric -

    Good story. I love a good conspiracy story, and I want to believe it - but I'm stuck on a couple of thoughts.

    First, in your own words, you were already an established internet entrepreneur. You had the vision to see an incredible future need. Why would you give that idea away? To a stranger at that? Rather than lay out, nearly step by step, how to make this thought become a successful reality, why not do it yourself?

    I assume that your answer is going to be because you were already running your own successful website...

    But again. As a successful internet entrepreneur myself, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the concept that you would give this idea away.

    Secondly. Why wait? Why would you wait to contact him after YouTube was already sold and he was well established.

    Once this small private site started to make major waves, and grow exponentially month over month - why didn't you reach out then?

    Lastly, after reading your blog posts from 2010 on "how to make money on the internet" I think you're hurting your credibility, not helping it.

    It was a good read, but far to many holes in this story.

    Simply said, a businessman never gives blockbuster ideas away. Nor do they share their success on "how to get rich" with others.

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  2. Hi Brian,

    I really appreciate the comments,questions and suggestions. Sometimes it's hard to figure out if anybody sees these blog posts or reads them or cares. I will go through your comment and cover everything since this is the only comment so far. I gave the idea away because Chad was so excited, likeable, and full of energy, and the idea hit me like a divine intervention or epiphany. It wasn't something I thought about before, it was just an on the fly spark of brilliance.I even told Chad I would work with him but I was busy with GoGetItNow and had high hopes for my website. If the domain name hadn't been stolen, it would've probably been what we now know as google...it looked like google,acted like google,it was almost exactly like google. Why did I wait to tell anyone? I don't really know. I guess i was too busy before Chad sold YouTube and was glad to see it doing so well but it hadn't made any money. And when I mentioned that YouTube was my idea, people just made fun of me, didn't believe me and didn't care. So I stopped telling people, but now that I am back in the .com world full time, I can see it's time to come clean and see what happens. The how to get rich thing was probably my first test on blogger. Remember, I am old but new in this industry. The one thing I am sure about is once I put something out there, I never delete it. What exactly is wrong with the how to make money and get rich thing? Maybe i should look at it. Do I give some secrets away? Or is it just dumb? Anyways, thanks for the comment and look forward to hearing what youre up to. Friend me on facebook at EricSkaggs.com and look me up on twitter, instagram, foursquare, tumblr at Eric Skaggs...I use the same goofy suit and tie picture in them all...and dont be afraid to call or text 7248402654. I can use as many friendly people for support on my side as i can get...the powers that be in the .com world and alot of my friends and family are mad at me for different reasons having to do with this story. I have a little writers block right now while I piece together what happened after chad and I talked.do you have any more comments?questions?suggestions?thanks

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  3. And i have a YouTube account so look me up there too...i am strangely not that excited about my youtube channel...i guess it upsets me or something to not be something special on the idea i had...

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  4. Hey Eric,

    I'm glad I could finally read your story, after I said I would time after time! I really though about it and I agree with Brian on why you would give him the idea. Hopefully, we can talk more then next time you come into the gas station when I am working.

    Sincerely,
    James Johnson

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  5. Hi James,

    Thanks for reading my story and leaving a comment. I gave Chad the idea because I was working on my website that was very successful until it was taken and promised to continue to be extremely successful. I had a brainstorm and Chad begged me for an internet business idea. I had a great idea...not a crystal ball. I thought it would be successful but really had no idea it would be THAT successful, and I had him promise me 1%, which is more than fair for an idea. He did all the work, I just gave him a great idea in exchange for a promise of 1%. If Chad fulfills his obligation and gives me the 1% or $16.5 million, I guess no one would wonder why I gave him the idea.lol. And I thought and still think he was and is a great guy with alot of passion and drive. I am proud of what Chad was able to do with my idea, I just hope he fulfills his promise and compensates me like he promised. Thanks again James. Hope to see you again soon and don't be a stranger. If you haven't friended me on facebook, it's EricSkaggs.com. And if you are on twitter, linkedin, foursquare, instagram, youtube, tumblr or any other social networks, search for Eric Skaggs and I will follow or friend you back.

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  6. I used archive.org and it seems like your site GoGetItNow had a large adult focus.. Not sure how you can compare yourself to google. Seems like you were doing what all the search pages back then did... but with porn..

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000501000000*/http://GoGetItNow.com

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  7. Also, why didn't you make a YouTube account until 2010?

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  8. Hi Troy. The search results were from a company called searchtraffic.com, not an adult site. And I completely got out of the .com world for 10 years after GoGetItNow.com was taken from me. I know it Is hard to imagine, but try if you can. Thank you for the comments Troy. Keep in touch.

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  9. Hi Eric,

    Ideas are useless without execution. I get 10 ideas before I hop out of the shower in the morning.

    Gathering the resources, executing properly, and monetizing a business is where all the real magic happens.

    As for Chad giving you 1% of the company, that will likely never happen. Chad couldn't give you 1% even if he wanted to. Companies have a board of directors and they would never approve the decision. The only option would be for him to compensate you with something personally, but after all the work he put in, I don't know why he would want to.

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  10. Hi Vince,

    Thank you for your comment. I have many ideas as well. That is not the point.

    I understand that doing the things I told Chad to do to get YouTube to be what it is today was difficult for him. That is not the point either.

    You stated Chad "couldn't" fulfill the promise he made to me. I do not believe it would be impossible to determine 1% of $1.65 billion. It is $16.5 million. He could simply write me a check.

    And the main point is that I am not suggesting the YouTube idea I gave Chad is worth 1%. Chad Hurley himself actually agreed to give me 1% of YouTube.

    And as for why he would want to fulfill his promise: honesty, morality, legality, sleep at night, teach his children right from wrong, maintain a good reputation as an ethical businessman...etc.

    And let me leave you with an apt analogy to ponder. If I said to you I will teach you a rain dance and in 1 minute, $1000 will fall from the sky into your hand. If no money falls from the sky, you owe me nothing. If the $1000 falls into your hand, you have to give me $10. Would you agree to that? You say "yes". So I teach you the rain dance and you do the rain dance and $1000 falls from the sky into your hand. Do you give me the $10 you promised me? Whether you are a good person or a bad person, a smart person would. Why? Because either way, I am the guy that made you $1000 in one minute. Don't you want to keep me around to teach you the next rain dance that will make you $10,000 or more per minute? Comments, questions, suggestions?

    Thank you for your time, Vince and everyone else that contributes in their own various ways. I really do appreciate it and I hope we stay in touch. If not here, please friend me at EricSkaggs.com(goes to my facebook) and I am on basically all the social networks and I will always friend or follow or subscribe to anyone that wishes to do the same for me. And let me know what you think about BuckGet.com - Make Money Social Networking. I started a little social network for fun on April 1, 2013 and it has about 25,000 members in just over 3 months!

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  12. Hey Eric, wow, I do believe your story. I actually found your article because I was looking to find anything related to Chad Hurley speaking about IUP. Because I myself am an IUP Alumni in Communications Media and Journalism, and I personally find it curious as to why IUP doesnt promote his accomplishements more to the students there. I mean, anyone here has to agree, YouTube is by far the BIGGEST thing to happen to the internet, we all use it dozens of times a day, however, I bet if you took a survey of the current student body there, hardly anyone would know he was the founder- unless they found out by here-say. I currently teach in K-12 schools now and I causally mention that the founder of YouTube went to IUP and they're all super shocked and surprised (cause most kids in this region obviously think Pennsylvania is opporunity-less or that nothing that good comes out of it)... but anywho, I do find your story sounding authentic, you're obviously well-educated and honest about being heard. So judging by someones heart, it seems like you genuinely want him to reach out to you and acknowledge your advice and idea to him. I would personally keep on pursuing your ideas because I bet they could be beneficial to many people like YouTube is... and as for the way IUP feels about Chad, maybe you have some insight? I heard he donated $1 million or was gonna donate more, but something happened where they didnt honor him or his coach like he requested so he didnt donate as much... anywho, all water under the bridge now, Im grateful for IUP and the affordable education I received. Maybe ill meet you in person someday! Best wishes and I hope good things come to you as God see's everything, right? I hope your rewarded for all of this and that it doesnt ever make you bitter, as I do not think it is... God Bless Eric! IUPeople 4 Life!

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    1. Hi Dan,

      Thank you for your support and understanding. IInventedYouTube.com : TheREALYouTubeStory.com is completely 100 percent true. Do you have any ideas as to how to get the one percent Chad promised me for the YouTube idea? My attorneys and I have upped the reward to $100 million for verifiable documented evidence from reputable sources that proves Chad promised me one percent of the now nearly $100 billion company.

      Keep in touch,
      Eric

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  13. Hi, Eric. I bought and read your book just a few moments ago. My first thought was why you didn't get something in writing when you were giving Chad your amazing idea and the steps to follow to fulfillment. Then, I remembered that you were younger, then...and a guy. Young guys like to think everybody's a straight shooter like them. I have an idea, which may appear totally worthless but is completely sound. I'm taking a chance on you that you are telling the whole truth. My email is mimsy@mimsydolls.com. My website is up but not completely running, so email is best. God bless you, Eric.

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    1. Hi Mimsy,

      I am telling the truth. What is your idea?

      Thank you,
      Eric

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  15. Thanks SlimeHackerPlayz. I appreciate the support and understanding. If you help me get the verifiable documented evidence from a reputable source or sources that proves Chad Hurley promised me one percent of YouTube, I will give you $100 million! Does that sound fair?

    Please keep in touch and if you have any ideas or get any information, please let me know.

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