YouTube founder China Entrepreneurship Road: Full access to mobile internet

May 28, YouTube co-founder Chad Herli Chad Hurley and Chen in an interview with Sohu it disclosed its new entrepreneurial progress and business in China, it is understood that the two founder of the company AVOs has launched a "delicious bookmark" products in China, In the future, this product will be a major revision, and will launch mobile Internet products.

Delicious Bookmark

Hurley and Chen co-founded the AVOs, the most eye-catching action is last April from Yahoo bought a web site bookmark Management website Delicious. Last month, AVOs also completed a round of financing. And AVOs in China also launched a new product "delicious bookmark."

Many foreign internet companies have failed to enter China, and the success of AVOs into China has been questioned. In response, Chen said, "We believe that many foreign companies have failed in the Chinese Internet industry because they are more simply translating and localizing foreign products to China, rather than developing products specifically for local conditions." But before AVOs delicious in the United States, it had begun developing products in China and developing it entirely on a local basis. ”

According to Chad Herli, at present, AVOs has more than 50 employees worldwide, in addition to its headquarters in the United States, AVOs also set up branches in New Zealand and China, and China employs about 20 people.

"Our model is similar to that of Google, according to the various branches of the research and Development staff division." For example, Chinese team engineers are more adept at iOS and backend development, so they are more committed to the research and development work. "Chen said.

It is reported that at present, the AVOs China team is developing iOS client, and will soon launch mobile Internet clients. and "Delicious Bookmark" will also be in June new revision. "After the revision, the product will have a new content presentation, but also with the mobile Internet more integration." AVOs, China's head of Hongjiang, said.

It is noteworthy that AVOs's main product, from the Yahoo Acquisition delicious development is not smooth, at that time, the acquisition has also been questioned by industry insiders. But Chen seems to be confident of delicious's future development.

"Delicious before the development is not because of Yahoo management problems, if we are well planning the development direction of delicious, this product is a great development potential." Delicious and similar products do not have a good development, it is just that the previous products exist unresolved problems, or there is no good way to solve some problems, this is our opportunity. Of course, delicious this more well-known brand for AVOs new start-up company is also more valuable. "Chen said.

In the face of emerging market new forms of competition and competitors, Chad Herli also frankly not worried.

"When we were doing YouTube, there were a lot of competitors, including Google Video,youtube's resources and brands are far from enough, but we eventually surpassed other competitors, believe that this is because we are more in line with user needs." Of course, this is also because YouTube logo is designed by me. Chad Herli smiled.

It is understood that as PayPal early employees and the founder of YouTube Chad Herli has designed the two companies logo.