Acquired

Episode 7: YouTube

Feb 3, 2016

50:22

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The Value of YouTube and Google's Acquisition Strategy

01:45

The History of the iPhone

01:05

You Two Reds

03:07

Google Video Is the Future or People's Attention

02:59

Introduction

2min

YouTube - A Lazy Sunday

2min

Google Acquisition A

3min

Is Facebook Stealing Video Share Revenue?

2min

YouTube Is Not a Destination Sight

2min

Are We Going to Go Out of Business?

3min

Is Direct Payments a Better Model for Video on the Internet?

2min

You Two Reds

3min

Utube Live Streaming

2min

10.

YouTube as Google's Lost Leader?

2min

11.

The Google Video Search Is So Much Deeper Than You'd Think

2min

12.

YouTube vs Google Video?

3min

13.

YouTube Is Taking Off

3min

14.

You're a Start-Up, You've Got an Unfair Advantage

3min

15.

Google Video Is the Future or People's Attention

3min

16.

Is That Bad for Your Business?

2min

17.

Is That Our Lowest Grade Yet?

2min

18.

The Product Lens Is the Same as Product Lenses

2min

19.

The Product Site Is Like, Really Hardlake

2min

Ben and David test the widely-held belief that YouTube was one of the most successful tech acquisitions of all time. In today's world of next-generation video platforms, mobile video, streaming, and chord-cutting, was it actually a great purchase by Google?

As discussed in the show, here is Sequoia's original YouTube investment memo - a rarely-shared gold mine for anyone interested in startup investing.

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