We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

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.

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

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.