Ethan Anderson

Can you launch this outside the U.S.

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And I said, sure.

And there was no mentorship.

There was very little management.

I had a product management director who had 40 or 50 direct reports that I didn't even really meet for a few months.

And no one said how to do it.

So for like 20 minutes, I was just like frozen.

Like, what do I do?

I mean, is there like a list of countries?

How old are you at this point?

Who do I work with?

But then you just get into it.

And it's actually great training for being a startup founder and CEO because of that early Google day, you had complete autonomy and you had to figure things out just like you have to in the real world.

Ethan, how old were you when you were going through that?

No, absolutely not.

I think everybody in the Google Video team was as surprised as everybody else when it happened.

I actually got the sense that it happened very, very quickly.

It looked like YouTube had multiple suitors, and Google got in there thinking, we just cannot let this go to a competitor like Yahoo or Microsoft.

and they just made a bid and it happened like lightning fast.