Summary: (http://kamlashow.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/feross-140x150.jpg)This can only happen in Silicon Valley.You create an app, post it and the next thing you know everybody is talking about it, and you get a call from YouTube's (http://www.youtube.com) CEO. That is exactly what happened to the creator of YouTube Instant's (http://www.feross.org/) Feross Aboukhadijeh (http://www.feross.org/), a junior at Stanford University (http://www.stanford.edu) and an intern at Facebook. YouTube Instant was inspired by Google Instant. (Video interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xvfqu-J6jw)with Feross explaining YouTube Instant.) In September 2010 YouTube Instant became an instant hit and got a million hits within the first 10 days. Feross wrote the program as a challenge to his roommate in Stanford and posted it on his Facebook page. Within hours he got the first call from a Melissa Bell, a journalist (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/09/youtube_instant_trumps_google.html) at The Washington Post and the media (http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/09/10/10venturebeat-stanford-student-creates-youtube-instant-get-38618.html?ref=technology) deluge began with calls and emails from all around the world. And within the next 24 hours YouTube Instant went viral, and the next thing Feross got was a tweet from YouTube's Chad Hurley (http://chadhurley.com/), co-founder and former CEO. In this interview Feross talks about what brought him to Stanford, the idea behind YouTube Instant, working at Facebook, and entrepreneurs that inspire him. This is part of a longer live interview that originally aired on Stanford Spotlight, KZSU in September 2010.
