Comments on: If you’re so smart, why didn’t you invent YouTube?

By: your mother in law

your mother in law — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:17:07 +0000

Why are you writing blogs and not inventing YouTube?

By: Manny

Manny — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:40:51 +0000

Reminds me of the following joke -

For years my aunts and uncles used to come up to me at weddings, elbow me, and say, “You’re next. You’re next.”

That is until I started saying “You’re next. You’re next” at family funerals.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:02:51 +0000

If she’s so smart, why didn’t she introduce her daughter to the guys who did invent YouTube?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:02:13 +0000

I’ve been pretty busy lately working on an idea during my spare time that just might wind up be the most profound waste of time in the history of humankind. So, what’s this YouTube stuff?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:33:14 +0000

Believe it or not, I was sitting around the house with my parents-in-law, who were IN THE PROCESS OF CHASTISING ME about not inventing YouTube, when I saw this on reddit. SIGH

By: Hotortillas

Hotortillas — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:16:37 +0000

“I just did not feel like, maybe next week I will do it”

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:49:13 +0000

Don’t feel bad. Smart people don’t invent things like youtube. A smart person would consider all the problems and obstacles to success. Questions a smart person might ask: What about the hosting costs? How do we avoid copyright infringement? How do we actually make money?

Youtube was and is a scam. They basically built something that is absurdly easy to copy, massively expensive to run, makes no money and is liable to be sued out of existence. They got lucky and hit the right point in the IT hype cycle and flipped it. They did not build a successful, ongoing business, they did not acheive anything of technical merit.

Youtube should not be held up as an example of entrepreneurial success. You could go out tommorrow and commit fraud or any number of crimes and get rich. People do this everyday, should they be lauded for their wealth?

By: mikeyk

mikeyk — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:38:23 +0000

I think there’s a Dilbert strip somewhere where Dilbert’s mother asks Dilbert why he hasn’t made big as a software developer yet. Dilbert turns the tables and asks his mother why she hasn’t written any great cookbooks yet.

Then Dilbert sneakily suggests the title “Cooking with too much salt”

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:34:59 +0000

Wouldn’t the correct response be something like “Because I’ve been too busy pampering your daughter”? Or maybe some other verb in place of pampering?

By: Usman Ahmad

Usman Ahmad — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:38:10 +0000

everytime i read such thoughts from someone , almost 99% is due to mother in law. why only mother in laws are from heaven … why not mother. I am a bachelor, that why the story behind this ‘in-law’ is hidden from me.

can i suggest something? , did you ever read Stephen R Covey try him

i am among fans of Paul Graham
read his articles and i hope, you will be one starting a startup.

i am now in founders list of startups …

good day,

Usman