Interview with Khalid Shaikh from FlyUpload

Published: Sept. 6, 2007, 3 p.m.

This interview is with Khalid Shaikh of FlyUpload. This guy founded YouSendIt, a file transfer service. Aside from a very good viral model, one reason why they became famous early on is because Iraqi militants used their service to send out videos of kidnapped contractors. The YouSendIt concept has spawned many new business models on the Internet, including YouTube. Some key points of the interview: Learn about a virtually unknown business model that has twice the traffic of Facebook (considered to be a $2 billion dollar company). Find out how these sites are achieving 30% monthly growth. Hear the inside story of the economics of this business model.