YouTube Pitch Deck with Valuation of $1.7B at Acquisition

 

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In YouTube’s initial pitch deck (page 30 in the document below), the online video platform counted under 10,000 users and 100,000 video views per day but reported rapid growth.

YouTube now boasts 2B+ monthly users and 1B+ hours of video watched every day. The deck, which includes Sequoia Capital’s investment memo by partner Roelof Botha, was dug up by Thrive Capital’s Miles Grimshaw.

Details of the startup:

• Industry: Video, Social Media, Entertainment, Media
• Business model: Marketplace
• Year: 2005
• Amount raised: $3.5M