Roelof Botha: Would YouTube like to meet with Sequoia?

Feb 18, 2022

Roelof Botha wrote:

Hi Jawed,

You guys have built something extremely interesting! An easy-to-use, fun, and viral product. Is there any way I might convince you to meet with Sequoia to talk about youtube.com?

Best,

Roelof

Jawed Karim wrote:

Yup, would love to. Let me know when.

In other news, we just found out that we are going to be the first people to present at the DEMO conference http://demo.com/.

Thanks,

Jawed

Roelof Botha wrote:

Hi Jawed,

I'd love to set up a meeting for next week then. At which email address can I reach you (so my assistant can help schedule the meeting with me and another partner here)?

Best,

Roelof

From: Jawed Karim
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2005 2:33 PM
To: Roelof Botha
Subject: Re: YouTube Message: ramping up

Hi Roelof,

This is my email. Our team could meet on Thursday or Friday.

Talk to you soon!

Jawed

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Roelof Botha wrote:

------Original Message------

From: Mark Kvamme
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2005 10:39 PM
To: Roelof Botha
Subject: my first youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/?v=z4wRLTbP0T0

From: Jawed Karim
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2005
To: Roelof Botha
Subject: Re: FW: my first youtube video

Awesome! I had no idea that was another Sequoia colleague ;)

By the way we just pushed out a ton of new features. You can now see your friends' favorites and videos more easily and it shows total views for all your videos on the front page.

Jawed

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Roelof Botha wrote:

The site is excellent! I've been struggling to figure out how to share videos with family & friends. Email just doesn't work. I look forward to thursday's meeting. Do you have a presentation, or do you need any help with that?

Best

Roelof

From: Jawed Karim

Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2005

To: Roelof Botha

Subject: Re: FW: my first youtube video

Roelof,

I don't think we'll have a Powerpoint presentation. Right now I think the best we have is a simple product demonstration, so it would be cool if we could do that.

[This document is from Viacom v. YouTube (2010).]

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