Capstone #3

Planning Phase

If you don’t know, I am researching YouTube for Capstone. For Capstone, we have to interview someone (and do a Site Visit, but I’ll talk about that in my next blog post. So stay tuned!) A month or so ago, Ms. Boyer invited her friend and former student to come to the class and talk to us.  He said he used to work at Google, but left and started his own company. The part about his own company was pretty cool, but I was more interested in the part about Google. In fact, that sparked my interest in Google. But I like YouTube, and I figured since this guy used to work at Google, he might know a thing or two about YouTube. So I asked Ms. Boyer to contact him. I’ll talk about the actual interview in the next paragraph.

Interview Phase:

I was really worried and nervous to interview Greg. I thought “What if I pronounce a word incorrectly?” or “What if I forget something?” But as soon as I started the interview, I calmed down. I was sitting on a stool, but I never had time to sit down comfortably. So I half sat, half stood during the 20 minutes of my interview. It turned out Greg knew a lot more about YouTube than I thought, and he was able to answer almost all the questions I asked him. I’ll talk about what I learned in the next paragraph.

Learning Phase:

I learned so much during my interview with Greg! I recorded it on my phone, so now I can watch it whenever I want. One thing I learned is that Google didn’t really buy YouTube that recently. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it was pretty recent, but from my perspective, it was a LONG time ago. Another thing I learned is the first ever video posted to YouTube was called “Me at the zoo”, and that kind of set the tone that this was a video sharing website where ordinary people could post random things. The interview helped me so much, and now I just have to do a site visit. That concludes my third blog post. Thanks for reading!

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