Episode 7 — YouTube - Acquired  ## Metadata - Author: **Acquired** - Full Title: Episode 7 — YouTube - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/a689a389-8fb1-470c-a5c9-9ae3f885dd12 ## Highlights - The History of the iPhone Key takeaways: • Sel phones happened shortly thereafter,. • Google made a big bet that people would move from watching their televisions to watching video on line. They were absolutely right about that. Transcript: Speaker 1 And this was newand the then shortly thereafter, sel phones happened. As smart phones happened. Speaker 2 Amen. You think about when this acquisition happened, was it like october of two thousand six? Yes. I mean, not even a year before the iphone a. Speaker 1 All of these things that all combine in this this a, a, you know, inferno d to create the opportunity for you to yes. Speaker 2 And it's really interesting. I mean, i've been cont of rip and google the whole time here, and we'll continue to. But the they made a big bet that people would move from watching their televisions to watching video on line. And we weren't calling it cord cutting then, and we didn't know that we'd have these net flicks, like subscriptions and things like that. But they were definitely making the bet that that video on the internet is the future or people's attention. And they were absolutely right about that, ye. Speaker 1 I mean, i don't have cable able. Speaker 2 No, not my adult life. Speaker 4 Me neither. Speaker 3 A, i think i think it's time for conclusion. ([Time 0:33:28](https://share.snipd.com/snip/a3dc0abc-41a8-429b-bc27-fa5157629715))