Virou moda, agora? Primeiro, foi um suposto terceiro fundador do Google (farsa!). Agora, um tal de Herbert Elwood Gilliland III afirma ter idealizado o YouTube e que, sem ele, a idéia não teria ido para frente. Além disso, afirma que foi ele quem criou o nome YouTube:
Segundo Herbert, foi durante uma ligação há 10 anos que ele disse a Chad Hurley — ex-funcionário do PayPal e co-fundador do YouTube, ao lado de Steve Chen e Jawed Karim — para fundar o YouTube. Conta, também, que em agosto de 2007 bateu um papo com Sergey Brin e que muito do que falou acabou se concretizando em novidades no YouTube.
O email abaixo foi enviado por ele ao Michael Arrington, do TechCrunch:
I’m writing you because I am looking for some media outlet to cover my situation. I invented the YouTube brand and worked at a company where I was developing a similar product in 1998. I inverted several key elements of the product “Synthetic Interview” to create YouTube, and shared this idea with my friends. I also tried to create a company called YouTube several times between 1998-2004, when in November, I talked to Chad Hurley on the phone when he was still working at PayPal. I explained the idea behind YouTube, the brand name, and challenged him to start the company since he had close ties to Peter Theil, a well known billionaire venture capitalist. I asked for 1% of the proceeds of the sale of the company in exchange for this great idea. Years later, I am still trying to get Chad to recognize me with fiscal compensation and/or credit for creating the brand, basic concepts (video uploading, video commenting, agnostic video format, layout of the main video screen, awards and top listings “most watched”, star ratings, viewers, DMCA automation, video and audio fingerprinting).
After a phone call with Sergey Brin in August of 2007, several other of my ideas became a part of YouTube (thumbs-up and thumbs-down, video annotation). Since they seem to depend so much on my ideas to make their billions, why can’t then see the benefit in enabling me to start my own firm? Why do these “altruistic” billionaires not see the benefit in sharing some of their wealth?
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H. E. Gilliland III
O pobre coitado afirma que “só quer US$1 milhão” para que possa investir em educação e se tornar um médico. Universidade cara, essa.
