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.
Chad HurleyWith YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.
Chad HurleyWe started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.
Chad Hurley