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Metacafe cofounders Arik Czerniak and Ofer Adler — neither involved with the company's day-to-day operations — will walk away from the company with $2.5 million each, according to TheMarker. If $5 million seems like a lot, remember that YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each cleared $326.2 million selling out to Google and that Czerniak and Adler might have turned down a $200 million to $700 million offer from Yahoo. All of which makes it even more fun to watch the video embedded below, recorded just weeks after Google purchased YouTube, where Czerniak tries to convince Bambi Francisco that Metacafe is "the largest, most popular video site."
Metacafe founders take their $5 million and go
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3:40 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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This dude needs to caffeinate up a bit - he is almost asleep which is really surprising considering that Bambi sitting across from him is so hot with that very buttoned-down blouse.
When she ask him what people are watching he should have replied honestly "porn"...
He certainly does disclose a lot of numbers.
This guy sure knows how to pile on BS.
this is just proof that the reason why companies die isn't being acquired by Yahoo!, it's that they actually do lack potential. If they'd been bought, Yahoo! would have been blamed for choking their growth and killing them.
Zuckerberg may be the king of awkward speaking.
This guy is just -- boring.
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