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YouTube started as a video dating site before becoming the world's biggest video platform. Roy Abdo explains how the founders built something and let users decide what it became, showing why flexibility matters in product development.

YouTube started as a video dating site before becoming the world's biggest video platform. Roy Abdo explains how the founders built something and let users decide what it became, showing why flexibility matters in product development.
Do you know a brand called YouTube? Of course you do, but let's take a guess what was initially YouTube created for. Actually, a video dating site. And could you imagine the brand transformation? Crazy, right? So the moral of the story is you have to create something and the crowd will decide how they're gonna use it.