• How YouTube Sold to Google for $1.65 Billion

  • Jun 10 2020
  • Length: 8 mins
  • Podcast

How YouTube Sold to Google for $1.65 Billion

  • Summary

  • There are over 7 billion video views on YouTube every single day. However, this 1.65-billion-dollar app wasn’t the first of its kind or even the first to market.

    In this episode, Sean shares exactly how this video streaming platform surpassed its competitors and took over the market, and how you can apply the exact same steps to your app business.

    Show Highlights Include:

    • What actually happens to apps that are first to market [2:00]
    • The reasons YouTube was nearly 20X more successful than Vimeo [3:38]
    • How YouTube surpassed Vimeo in user traffic [4:08]
    • What Chad Hurley says YouTube’s greatest attribute was [5:02]
    • How exactly YouTube got that early distribution advantage [6:10]

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