Short Read: Rituals for hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled
Shishir Mehrotra | 11 minutes
I joined YouTube in 2008, soon after the Google acquisition, and started on one of the most incredible roller coaster rides of my life. Much has been written about the external accomplishments of the YouTube team—growing from a (mostly misunderstood) video sharing property to the platform for millions of creators to connect with audiences all over the world. Interestingly though, very little has been written about the internal workings of YouTube.
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Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
- Derek Sivers, Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
The legendary British actor Rowan Atkinson was bullied as a child for having a stutter.
But his speech impediment mysteriously went away when he was performing on stage. “I find when I play a character other than myself, the stammering disappears,” he says.
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