When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.
— Chad Hurley
Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.
People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
Football has limited success in Europe.
To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing.
Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.
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.
CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
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.
Today, technology asks too much of people.
I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.
Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.
The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.
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 it's really those small things that make the big difference.
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.
I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.
Google has a great product. They've built a great business.
There's not really any safe places on the Internet.
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.
Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.
There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.
The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?
I'm an NFL guy.
As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.
Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.
YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.
The telecom industry pretends like it's not getting paid.
I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
I basically watch videos online all day long.
If something excites you, go for it.
I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.
When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.
I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.
I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley.
The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.
From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.
There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.
I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.
Everyone wants to be recognized.
Google is basically this idea that sites that link to other sites create a better way to search.
