Fellow AOL blogger Tom Taulli at Blogging Stocks speculates that
YouTube may be preparing for an IPO. The evidence? 1) YouTube's investor is Sequoia Capital, which was also an early investor in Google and "is not about making a great returns on its investments; rather, it wants to make blow-out returns." 2) YouTube
just hired Gideo Yu, former Yahoo! treasurer, to be its CFO. Despite YouTube's youth--it was founded just 19 months ago--Taulli says a YouTube IPO would be "easy" considering its 40% market share and 100 million videos viewed each day.
Tags: business, ipo, money, stocks, video, youtube
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Subscribe to commentsHaimsonSep 5th 2006 2:57PM
Honestly, who would invest in it. It will probably do good because of pure hype. But it has no monetization strategy, and probably wont for a while. Plus, its loss wont be that big a thing, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and a myriad of other similar sites will pick up the slack.
I think if they can figure out a way to just break even, then it will have a glimmer. Rite now, its just too big an elephant to move.
Jeffrey McManusSep 5th 2006 3:19PM
Which VC firms aren't about making blow-out returns?
Rob ConerySep 5th 2006 5:38PM
Who would invest in it? No monetization strategy? Are you FRICKIN NUTS! 100 million videos watched a day... Hello? Did you know that in terms of "Eyes on video" YouTube outpaces all the major US TV stations - combined! In case you weren't aware, networks make money on advertising. Math anyone? YouTube is almost impossible to evaluate - how do you put a $$ value on something that will deliver advertisements to a loyal following, with ZERO production costs (video production) and a staff of 40-something with so little overhead... well it's stifling.
I'm not a .com kook - but just look what Google's doing in the market, and that's with search and a smattering of other apps. This is media - a rich experience that people go to when they want. It's the American Passtime (watching TV); I for one think the only possible problem here is their competition.
FabuloSep 5th 2006 6:13PM
1. Create a popular free service with millions of subscribers generating a demand for trillions of gigabytes/s of bandwidth.
2. ...
3. Profit!
= youtube
= myspace