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NEW YORK When it plunked down $1.65 billion for hot video-sharing site YouTube, Google executives pointed to the vibrant community YouTube had built as a main justification for the price it was willing to pay. But that community’s development was mostly accidental, according to YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley.
Speaking at OgilvyOne’s Verge digital summit, Hurley readily admitted that he and fellow founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim did not set out with a grand plan to build one of the Web’s most vibrant communities: They just wanted to make it as easy for people to share videos as it was for photos.
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