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History of YouTube YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million,[9] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an additional $8 million in the company, which had experienced significant growth in its first few months.[10]
Look What You Made Me Do The song's music video premiered on August 27, 2017 at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.[50] The video broke the record for most-watched video within 24 hours by achieving 43.2 million views on YouTube in its first day.[51] It topped the 27.7 million Vevo views Adele's "Hello" attracted in that timeframe, as well as the 36 million YouTube views of Psy's "Gentleman" video.[52][53][54] It was viewed at an average 30,000 times per minute in its first 24 hours, with views reaching over 3 million views per hour.[51] As of July 2018, it has over 940 million views, making it the 89th most-viewed Vevo video of all time and has reached 7.7 million likes on YouTube, making it the 21st most-liked YouTube video of all time.