you built the ad business, google blogs, how many hats have you worn in 18 years? susan: when you join a startup, you have to be willing to do whatever the start up needs you to do. part of it, because i did not have a fixed role is always looking for the opportunity, and so, look, there is an opportunity. nobody else is working on image search. there are all these other people working on the text search but images were really cool. today that is a very popular search. i think doing a lot of things and having the freedom to move around the company, being able to see a lot of opportunities and grow them. emily: it has been 10 years since google bought youtube and you wrote the original justification plan that convince them to buy the company. what did you see back then? susan: i did a spreadsheet, but i also believed in youtube. there was one video we had and that video convinced me and showed me that people all over the world can create content and be entertaining. the video was of these two students in their dorm room and their roommate is in the background doing

confirmation did not come till early wednesday when a technology blog reported to move. googleuired titan aerospace in 2014 beating out facebook in the bidding. the vision was to beam internet access from the sky so more people could log on from remote places. now app dynamics is gearing up for the first tech ipo of the year. the software company plans to raise $158 million in its initial public offering. and a concurrent private placement, and the price of shares on january 25. speaking on this is my guest for the hour. one of your portfolio companies is one of the only success stories of 2016. it went public. is 2017 looking to be the year? ethan: that is the buzz right now. i tend to be contrarian and do not believe in market timing. in terms of this is the right time for a company to go public. if you rewind the clock -- that was a great time to go public. they had what most industry watchers was a very successful ipo process. caroline: double where they started. ethan: i think people's ability to predict the market timing of if now is going public, is zovoo doo. somehow ba

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