It was a huge bet, it paid off for many reasons, not least luck. I remember 2005/2006 there were many websites competing for the video-website role, YouTube's

It was a huge bet, it paid off for many reasons, not least luck. I remember 2005/2006 there were many websites competing for the video-website role, YouTube's luck was that...they were very permissive on uploads while competitors like Vimeo e.g. employed a reasonable amount of content moderators.