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🗓️ 2 December 2021
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The success of MySpace Music, and the site's influence on pop culture, attracts big time potential buyers like media mogul, Rupert Murdoch.
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0:31.0 | It's June 2004 in the halls of eUniverse in Los Angeles. |
0:37.0 | Computer programmer Gabe Harriman storms through the office. |
0:41.0 | Gabe left MySpace not long after the site launched to start his own IT consulting business. |
0:46.0 | But a few months ago, Chris and Tom brought Gabe back to help them with their latest initiative, |
0:51.0 | transforming MySpace from a social media site into a mass media company, or as they called it, |
0:57.0 | the MTV of the internet. |
1:00.0 | So they hired Gabe to build a brand new music player that will allow independent bands to upload MP3s to the site. |
1:07.0 | This Chris and Tom hope will bring in more users and advertising dollars. |
1:11.0 | And Gabe was happy to be back in the fold until he came back from a short vacation |
1:16.0 | and learned that Chris and Tom brought the music player project in house and handed off Gabe's code to the internal team. |
1:24.0 | So today, as Gabe bursts into Chris's office, he holds nothing back. |
1:29.0 | Now how could you do this to me, man? |
1:31.0 | Well, welcome back, Gabe. |
1:33.0 | Oh, don't give me that. You stole my music player. |
1:36.0 | It's not your music player. You've been working on a project from MySpace. |
1:39.0 | Now we brought that project in house. |
1:41.0 | We couldn't stop everything and wait down you while you took your vacation. |
1:44.0 | I was gone for like a week. You know how fast things move here, Gabe? |
1:48.0 | We couldn't wait. I'm sorry. |
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