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YouTube

Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim · 2005

YouTube was a technical execution of a simple idea—upload and share video—with no monetisation strategy. Its founders leveraged prior wealth, network access, and timing to achieve rapid scale, then sold to Google before proving sustainability. The gap between usage and revenue was never closed—it was exited.