Chad Hurley Quotes

• 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.

  Chad Hurley

  Thinking, Differences, Vision

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

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  Video, Creation, Youtube

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• If something excites you, go for it.

  Chad Hurley

  Ifs

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• Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

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  Running, Internet Business, Bigs

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• I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

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  Kids, Toys, Made

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• YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

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  Entertainment, Becoming, Destination

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• 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.

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  Success, Business, Powerful

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• To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

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  Lonely, Journey, Entrepreneur

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

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  Youtube

  "YouTube Founder Chad Hurley To Create New Video Sharing Site" by Sam Gutelle, www.tubefilter.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

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  Thinking, Media, Strategy

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• 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.

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  Real, Impact, Errors

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• When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

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  Running, Country, School

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

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  Wall, Phones, Ipads

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

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  People, Credit, Information

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• More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

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  People, Stories, Helping

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• 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.

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  Coffee, Book, Use

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