Youtube a “turd”

Apparently YouTube sucks.

This is news to no one.

Tremendous fun for the users, but of no value to people who want to make money; the author calls it a “community charity”.

But the best part is this:

There is absolutely no market value at all to user generated video. Zero. None. Nada. Actually there is a market value, but its negative.

Sometimes I get a little sad that I’m not out in Silicon Valley doing the hip startup thing, and that our little company here will probably at best provide a decent living for the principals (as opposed to headlines and filthy lucre).

But then I remember that the primary operating mode in startups is suck and only in the Bush Administration and Silicon Valley is a lengthy list of failures a positive thing.

And suddenly our boring little profitable company isn’t so bad. (If only running a successful business was a virtue in startups!)