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Title: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on August 21, 2009, 07:32:43 AM http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/21/officially-official-youtube-chief-chad-hurley-signs-on-with-usf/
Quote Brilliant things can happen when Silicon Valley gets into the car business. One look at Tesla is all the evidence we need. But now one of the tech corridor's biggest names and leading talents has stepped into the motor racing arena. Following weeks of speculation, the upstart US F1 team has announced the participation of one Chad Hurley. Starting out at eBay's successful PayPal service, Hurley and a few colleagues left to start YouTube, the video sharing site that they then sold to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Hurley stayed on to guide the company after the acquisition and has now signed on to the first American grand prix team in some four decades to enter Formula One. Hurley's responsibilities with the team will center on plotting its corporate and media strategy. However, there's been no official mention of whether YouTube – which has had its share of confrontations with Formula One Management – will itself be sponsoring the team directly. I am curious to see the livery Title: Re: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|buzinator on August 21, 2009, 09:17:40 AM Quote there's been no official mention of whether YouTube – which has had its share of confrontations with Formula One Management – will itself be sponsoring the team directly. Title: Re: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on August 21, 2009, 12:56:18 PM whats your point with the quote?
Title: Re: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|buzinator on August 21, 2009, 01:03:21 PM That the subject "Youtube to sponsor US F1 team" is misleading.
Title: Re: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|mrkavanagh on August 21, 2009, 01:11:14 PM Yeah it should have said Chad Hurley is an investor. All the articles that came out that day were off base
Like this one that says youtube will sponsor but doesn't mention it in the article. http://headlines.ocregister.com/sports/hurley-38920-youtube-team.html this one is misleading also http://www.irfanahmed.org/2009/08/youtube-to-sponsor-formula-1-team.html Title: Re: Youtube to Sponsor US F1 Team Post by: rip|buzinator on August 21, 2009, 01:28:26 PM yh, it's very often the case with F1 press, can be a pain to get an accurate picture at times.
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