For those of you who don't know Tudou is one of
China's video sharing sites, it along with Youku and many others have been making millions in China, thanks partly due to their pirated
movies and TV shows, but largely due to Google's
Youtube service being
blocked in
China.
Read the story of Gary Wang,
CEO of Tudou and his disaterous meeting with the late, great
Steve Jobs!The full translated transcript of the meeting can be read over at the excellent Techrice website but here is a bit of an intro to the story before you hope on over.
He had a “Holy shit! Can’t believe I’m in the same room meeting with Steve Jobs!” face.
Youtube had just been
blocked and
Apple were looking to enter the Chinese market with the
iPhone 4 and soon after the
iPad, so Jobs and the rest of the
Apple crew started to meed with the CEO's of China's video sharing sites to see if a deal for a new video app could be made.
To this day
iOS devices in
China don't come with
Youtube installed, so you can guess how the meetings went!
Head over to Techrice to read the full and very entertaining story!