The Founders' List: Shishir Mehrotra with an Inside Look at How YouTube Scaled (Rituals for Hypergrowth)
This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.
When Shishir Mehrotra left YouTube in 2014, a number of other company leaders wanted to understand how YouTube worked from the inside. He wrote this article summarizing their key rituals in a stage of hypergrowth. This article was originally published in 2015, but has since been expanded upon by Shishir.
Read the full essay here - https://coda.io/@shishir/rituals-for-hypergrowth-an-inside-look-at-how-youtube-scaled
(0:00) Introduction (1:02) Inside YouTube: Team structure and integration into Google (3:01) Overcoming cross-functional coordination challenges (4:32) Culture, rituals, and best practices at YouTube (6:52) Cadences and meetings: The YouTube way (10:20) Effective communication: From meeting readouts to email broadcasts (11:10) The art of canceling unnecessary meetings (11:24) Conclusion and outro
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