Chad Hurley
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.
The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.
Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.
Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.
In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
Football has limited success in Europe.
I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.Collection: Thinking
We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.Collection: Video
As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.Collection: Success
Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.Collection: Real
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.Collection: People