Hey tibbon, this is my first post on HN, but could not resist the urge to add to the thread.
My current position is Operations Manager at a company called Dreamstar Cash based in Altea (Spain), owned by Steve Matthyssen, a good friend of mine for many years.
Back in the day it all started with a TGP called gals4free.net. In Nov 2008 Dreamstar launched 4tube.com that is now ticking over with around 1.6M visits a day, 9 weeks ago we launched a new project PornTube.com that we're very excited about as we're using our existing tube model on a valuable/trusted/recognized domain that has historically outperformed/converted any other domain we've seen. Steve has built a solid reputation for himself over the years by not ripping off content. PornTube is 100% DMCA compliant, we believe the way forward is to work with, and not against the content producers.
Our current site has been designed with usability best practices in mind, as well as SEO (We're working with a highly reputable firm in the UK), scaleability, information architecture/semantics, MVT/CRO/LPO. Currently in the process of implementing rdf tags for some of our "starlettes" studios and movies, video sitemaps and dynamic rss feeds, social features...
As a small team it can be very hard to stay focused, develop all these features and ensure HA while managing +100k videos, security, performance and the list goes on. One of our goals for Q1 2011 is to review our SCRUM methodology and how we can improve our existing processes to stay on top of the game.
We worked VERY hard on setting ourselves a good foundation for growth, if there is any interest regarding the actual technologies used please forward your questions and I'll get our CTO to reply.
Nonetheless we do realise that their is much room for improvement, so any feedback would be very welcome, we're always looking to improve.
(We're also currently hiring ;-) feel free to pop over to http://www.dreamstarcash.com for more info or send your resume to jobs[at]dreamstarcash.com)