Taylor Hughes is a software engineer. He's worked at small startups and some of the biggest

tech companies like Facebook and Google. He was at YouTube in 2011 when he developed a feature

that still exists today. Yeah, let's say you're watching an episode of TV and like something

really funny happens at this moment. You can share the video at the moment. So if you just share a YouTube video with a friend, it will start at the

beginning by default. But if you wanted them to start at a specific moment, you know, eight minutes

and 13 seconds in, then you can use the checkbox Taylor created.

When you press share on YouTube,

it pops open a little dialogue,

and then there's a checkbox in there that says,

share link at this time,

like where the video currently is playing.

I've used that.

Yeah, that implementation with the checkbox

and the shareable URL,

it's been like exactly the same

since I made that in like 2011.

So Google, which of course owns YouTube, actually earned a patent for Taylor's tiny checkbox.

The big companies are trying to just get as many patents as they can because it's a defensive

strategy so that when a patent troll comes after you or you know

Larry Ellison decides to come after you for something you can throw you know like well actually

you're violating my patent on this checkbox in the video share flow oh that's so interesting

so you basically the product managers in in the company are kind of incentivized to patent anything

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