Viacom International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al

Filing 214

DECLARATION of William M. Hohengarten (Part Eight) Ex. 160 in Support re: 176 MOTION for Partial Summary Judgment /Viacom's Notice of Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on Liability and Inapplicability of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safe Harbor Defense.. Document filed by Country Music Television, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Viacom International, Inc., Black Entertainment Television, LLC, Comedy Partners. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 161, # 2 Exhibit 162, # 3 Exhibit 163, # 4 Exhibit 164, # 5 Exhibit 165, # 6 Errata 166, # 7 Exhibit 167, # 8 Exhibit 168, # 9 Exhibit 169, # 10 Exhibit 170, # 11 Exhibit 171, # 12 Exhibit 172, # 13 Exhibit 173, # 14 Exhibit 174, # 15 Exhibit 175, # 16 Exhibit 176, # 17 Exhibit 177, # 18 Exhibit 178, # 19 Exhibit 179, # 20 Exhibit 180, # 21 Exhibit 181, # 22 Exhibit 182, # 23 Exhibit 183, # 24 Exhibit 184, # 25 Exhibit 185, # 26 Exhibit 186, # 27 Exhibit 187, # 28 Exhibit 188, # 29 Exhibit 189, # 30 Exhibit 190, # 31 Exhibit 191, # 32 Exhibit 192, # 33 Exhibit 193, # 34 Exhibit 194, # 35 Exhibit 195, # 36 Exhibit 196, # 37 Exhibit 197, # 38 Exhibit 198, # 39 Exhibit 199, # 40 Exhibit 200, # 41 Exhibit 201, # 42 Exhibit 202, # 43 Exhibit 203, # 44 Exhibit 204, # 45 Exhibit 205, # 46 Exhibit 206, # 47 Exhibit 207, # 48 Exhibit 208, # 49 Exhibit 209, # 50 Exhibit 210, # 51 Exhibit 211, # 52 Exhibit 212, # 53 Exhibit 213, # 54 Exhibit 214, # 55 Exhibit 215, # 56 Exhibit 216, # 57 Exhibit 217, # 58 Exhibit 218, # 59 Exhibit 219, # 60 Exhibit 220, # 61 Exhibit 221, # 62 Exhibit 222, # 63 Exhibit 223, # 64 Exhibit 224, # 65 Exhibit 225, # 66 Exhibit 226, # 67 Exhibit 227, # 68 Exhibit 228, # 69 Exhibit 229, # 70 Exhibit 230, # 71 Exhibit 231, # 72 Exhibit 232, # 73 Exhibit 233, # 74 Exhibit 234, # 75 Exhibit 235, # 76 Exhibit 236, # 77 Exhibit 237, # 78 Exhibit 238, # 79 Exhibit 239, # 80 Exhibit 240, # 81 Exhibit 241, # 82 Exhibit 242, # 83 Exhibit 243, # 84 Exhibit 244, # 85 Exhibit 245, # 86 Exhibit 246, # 87 Exhibit 247)(Kohlmann, Susan)

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Monday, June 20, 2005 9:29 PM
Chad Hurley -c

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Re: how much are we worth

Put ll0ther way, I know that when we watch admin.php we're mostly excited
by video uploads right now. But I thi our focus should shi to user

signups.

FACT: most of our visitors will be viewing videos FACT: we need users more than we need videos
How can we convert viewers into signups?

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This next-pushwil focus mostly on better viewing, though the "top" lists. In the next push let's thnk of something that converts these viewing visitors into registrations.
That's why I was saying let's not plan featues too far in advance. Just
one push at a time and let's see where it takes us.

Thoughts?
Jawed

http://ww.jawed.com/

On Tue, 21 JUl 2005, Jawed wrote:

:; So Steve, :;
:; The reason I said that we're

not worth $1 mil right now is because all we :; have is the'product. If I looked at Youtube as an outside investor RIGHT :; NOW I would see 3 months of effort by 3 people. In salary terms that's
:; less than $100k. Any company can build Youtube for $

lOOk in 3 months.

:; :; Where our value comes in is USERS. If we had i 00,000 users THRE is NO WAY :; any company could achieve that quickly. 100,000 users becomes even MORE :; valuable (as does the 3 month figue) if there is a competitor already in :; the space. :; :; So our buy-out value is positively affected by: :; :; I) more Youtube users :; 2) competing services from Google / Marc Andreessen / etc :;
:; The only thig that we have control over is users. We must build features

:; that sign up tons of users, and keep them comig back. :;
:; And i th that's more important than sheer # of videos. Anyone can go

:; out and build a database of 50,000 videos. They're mostly free right? What :; nobody can do is get that many users easily. :;
:; Tt may he ohviom;, hut we Rhould he all ahout userR, URerR, URerR, and

:; much more so than about videos!

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:;
:; That's why Chad, I would encourage you to make our interface more focused :; on tbc USERS and lcss thc VIEOS. Thc uscrs havc to be thc stars of the :; site... :; :; Thoughts? :; ;: :; Jawed :; :;

;: htt://ww.jawed.com/ ;:

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