The infrastructure behind services like YouTube, Netflix, and Twitch is incredibly complex, requiring immense engineering efforts to deliver content efficiently.

The challenge for platforms like YouTube is to deliver new content quickly while managing a vast amount of data and ensuring relevance.

YouTube is fundamentally about watching, sharing, and creating video content, and it aims to maintain its position as the world's oldest and largest creator economy.

YouTube's evolution from a video dating service to a global platform has enabled millions to create careers and has become a primary source of entertainment and education worldwide.

To be worth 100 billion dollars, I just need to keep creating videos that get 100 million views, as the video is the foundation of everything I do.

It's much easier to hypothetically get 10 million views on one video than a hundred thousand on a hundred videos because if you make a really good video, it's just so evergreen and it never dies.

Back in 2005, when YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, broadband was just emerging in the United States, and it wasn't clear that the internet could even support video, let alone at the massive scale we take for granted today. YouTube was a longshot idea, and initially, almost no one noticed it.

YouTube will continue to focus on technology and support for creators, while the creative direction will be determined by the creators themselves. When I first started at YouTube ten years ago, the number of creators was around four or five, but now there's a proliferation of amazing content and creativity, which defines YouTube today and will continue to do so in the next decade.

The vast corpus of data on platforms like YouTube and TikTok is massive, and understanding video will significantly expand the internet's capabilities.