The Google announcement of its $1.65 billion purchase of popular video-sharing site YouTube is front-page news - everyone's talking about the profit being made by a handful of guys living over a pizza place. But do you know the background story? This cluster of Internet superstars - YouTube co-founders Jawed Karim (B.S. '04) and Steve Chen, another departmental alum, and the man who first brought them together at PayPal, Max Levchin (B.S. '97) - all come from the same constellation: they were all students in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois!YouTube/PayPal Founders: We Knew Them When...
Friday, October 13, 2006
YouTube/PayPal Founders: We Knew Them When...
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