YouTube pitch deck (2005)
YouTube's 2005 pitch deck is the deck the founders showed Sequoia for a $3.5M Series A, pitching a place for anyone to upload and share video. It is 10 plain slides of black text on white. Founders study the YouTube pitch deck because it proves a deck does not need design or charts when the problem, the timing and the traction are clear.
- Company
- YouTube
- Year
- 2005
- Round
- Series A
- Raised
- $3.5M
- Slides
- 10
Deck © YouTube. Shared for learning, credited to pitches.ai.
What's in the YouTube pitch deck
All 10 slides, in order.
Slide 1 · Cover
The YouTube logo and the tagline Broadcast Yourself.
Slide 2 · Company Purpose
To become the main outlet for user-generated video on the internet and let anyone upload, share and browse it.
Slide 3 · Problem
Video files are too large to email or host, formats are not standard, and videos sit as isolated files.
Slide 4 · Solution
People upload videos to YouTube, which converts them to Flash Video, serves them to millions of viewers and connects users to videos, users and other videos.
Slide 5 · Market Size
Digital video recording is cheap enough to go into consumer products for the first time, and home broadband has reached critical mass.
Slide 6 · Competition
OurMedia.org, Open Media Network, Google Video, PutFile, DailyMotion and Vimeo.
Slide 7 · Product Development
Community, open architecture, vertical markets that need video, and features in development.
Slide 8 · Sales and Distribution
Advertising, paid distribution for promotional videos, premium features for members and premium content for viewers.
Slide 9 · Team
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, all early PayPal employees, with Chad described as PayPal's first designer.
Slide 10 · Metrics
Launched June 11th and has already overtaken all existing competitors to become the dominant player in the space.
What the YouTube deck does well
- Slide 3 lists four specific, technical problems with video in 2005 that anyone who had tried to email a video would recognize.
- Slide 5 makes the case for timing with two shifts, cheap video recording and home broadband, instead of a big market number.
- Slide 10 ends on traction with one bold claim, that YouTube had already overtaken every competitor since launch.
What founders can learn from it
- Follow a simple order of purpose, problem, solution, why now, competition, model, team and traction, and you cover what investors need.
- Explain why now with the changes in technology that make your product possible today.
- Don't wait for perfect design, since a clear story in plain text can raise a round.
Questions about the YouTube pitch deck
- How many slides are in the YouTube pitch deck?
- The 2005 YouTube pitch deck has 10 slides.
- What's in the YouTube pitch deck?
- It covers company purpose, problem, solution, market size, competition, product development, sales and distribution, team and metrics.
- Can I download the YouTube pitch deck?
- Yes. The YouTube pitch deck is free to download as a PDF on this page.
- How much did YouTube raise with this deck?
- YouTube raised a $3.5M Series A from Sequoia in 2005.
- What problem did the YouTube pitch deck describe?
- It said video files were too large to email or host, had no standard format, and existed only as isolated files.
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