Marked up the article because it's hilarious, but honestly I don't know what I'm getting out of it. It's a panel of 6 people who won the lottery [meaning, in Paul's nomenclature, only 1 or 2 were actually trying to actually build wealth or solve a difficult problem]. Well, there is a lesson- be responsive to your audience, and when they start coming in droves do what they want, and then sell advertising.
It may seem that their ideas were initially as innocuous as they come, but that's probably not the whole of it.
YouTube's Chad and Steve say that they just wanted to create a cool site where you can share videos like Flickr users share their photos. I think it was in the Time article that the low-key third founder noted that it was pretty much in the plans all along to come up with a startup venture for mass proliferation. They achieved just that!
A great idea may bring light to a good business plan, but we shouldn't forget that there are cases where a good idea is born out of a great, focused business goal.
Yeh I posted it mostly for the laughs. Its great to see that they've all become succesful by doing what they enjoy. Theres so many great quotes in this video, too many to post them all here.
"So it all got started when a friend emailed me a picture of a squirrel with giant nuts.."
"I knew it had taken off when my dad was addicted to hotornot"
"We were just two geeks who wanted to meet hot chicks"
