Video Fixation

摘要

Steven Chen and Chad Hurley almost blew it. In May of last year they launched YouTube, a new Web site for user-provided videoclips, and in the next few months legions of the young and relentless overwhelmed it, watching thousands of videos and posting hundreds of new ones every day. Chen and Hurley had used their credit cards to bankroll the cost of storing and sending out the brief clips. They were ecstatic—but scared. The more viewers their site drew, the more money they lost.