YouTube | Acquired Podcast

One reason YouTube had struggled to recruit TV networks was that networks wanted to use their own video players. So Kamangar and Google higher-ups voted to morph the site to allow them to do so; YouTube would show its own videos as well as links to clips from Hulu, CNN, and so on, something that looked like Google search.

YouTube could be a threat to copyright owners but it could also be a very valuable tool for businesses looking for audiences.

As a plucky startup, YouTube could take all sorts of risks that Google, a public company with a big target on its back, could not.