diff --git a/src/components/common/YoutubeVideo.astro b/src/components/common/YoutubeVideo.astro
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..689e350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/common/YoutubeVideo.astro
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+---
+
+const {
+  videoId,
+  title = ""
+} = Astro.props;
+
+---
+
+<lite-youtube videoid={videoId} playlabel={title}></lite-youtube>
+
+<style is:global>
+  lite-youtube {
+    background-color: #000;
+    position: relative;
+    display: block;
+    contain: content;
+    background-position: center center;
+    background-size: cover;
+    cursor: pointer;
+    /* max-width: 720px; */
+  }
+
+  /* gradient */
+  lite-youtube::before {
+    content: '';
+    display: block;
+    position: absolute;
+    top: 0;
+    background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAADGCAYAAAAT+OqFAAAAdklEQVQoz42QQQ7AIAgEF/T/D+kbq/RWAlnQyyazA4aoAB4FsBSA/bFjuF1EOL7VbrIrBuusmrt4ZZORfb6ehbWdnRHEIiITaEUKa5EJqUakRSaEYBJSCY2dEstQY7AuxahwXFrvZmWl2rh4JZ07z9dLtesfNj5q0FU3A5ObbwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==);
+    background-position: top;
+    background-repeat: repeat-x;
+    height: 60px;
+    padding-bottom: 50px;
+    width: 100%;
+    transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);
+  }
+
+  /* responsive iframe with a 16:9 aspect ratio
+    thanks https://css-tricks.com/responsive-iframes/
+*/
+  lite-youtube::after {
+    content: '';
+    display: block;
+    padding-bottom: calc(100% / (16 / 9));
+  }
+  lite-youtube > iframe {
+    width: 100%;
+    height: 100%;
+    position: absolute;
+    top: 0;
+    left: 0;
+    border: 0;
+  }
+
+  /* play button */
+  lite-youtube > .lty-playbtn {
+    display: block;
+    width: 68px;
+    height: 48px;
+    position: absolute;
+    cursor: pointer;
+    transform: translate3d(-50%, -50%, 0);
+    top: 50%;
+    left: 50%;
+    z-index: 1;
+    background-color: transparent;
+    /* YT's actual play button svg */
+    background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 68 48"><path d="M66.52 7.74c-.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79.13 34 0 34 0S12.21.13 6.9 1.55c-2.93.78-4.63 3.26-5.42 6.19C.06 13.05 0 24 0 24s.06 10.95 1.48 16.26c.78 2.93 2.49 5.41 5.42 6.19C12.21 47.87 34 48 34 48s21.79-.13 27.1-1.55c2.93-.78 4.64-3.26 5.42-6.19C67.94 34.95 68 24 68 24s-.06-10.95-1.48-16.26z" fill="red"/><path d="M45 24 27 14v20" fill="white"/></svg>');
+    filter: grayscale(100%);
+    transition: filter 0.1s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);
+    border: none;
+  }
+
+  lite-youtube:hover > .lty-playbtn,
+  lite-youtube .lty-playbtn:focus {
+    filter: none;
+  }
+
+  /* Post-click styles */
+  lite-youtube.lyt-activated {
+    cursor: unset;
+  }
+  lite-youtube.lyt-activated::before,
+  lite-youtube.lyt-activated > .lty-playbtn {
+    opacity: 0;
+    pointer-events: none;
+  }
+
+  .lyt-visually-hidden {
+    clip: rect(0 0 0 0);
+    clip-path: inset(50%);
+    height: 1px;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    position: absolute;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+    width: 1px;
+  }
+</style>
+
+<script>
+  /* eslint-disable */
+// @ts-nocheck 
+  
+  /**
+   * A lightweight youtube embed. Still should feel the same to the user, just MUCH faster to initialize and paint.
+   *
+   * Thx to these as the inspiration
+   *   https://storage.googleapis.com/amp-vs-non-amp/youtube-lazy.html
+   *   https://autoplay-youtube-player.glitch.me/
+   *
+   * Once built it, I also found these:
+   *   https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/extensions/amp-youtube (👍👍)
+   *   https://github.com/Daugilas/lazyYT
+   *   https://github.com/vb/lazyframe
+   */
+  class LiteYTEmbed extends HTMLElement {
+    connectedCallback() {
+      this.videoId = this.getAttribute('videoid');
+
+      let playBtnEl = this.querySelector('.lty-playbtn');
+      // A label for the button takes priority over a [playlabel] attribute on the custom-element
+      this.playLabel = (playBtnEl && playBtnEl.textContent.trim()) || this.getAttribute('playlabel') || 'Play';
+
+      /**
+       * Lo, the youtube placeholder image!  (aka the thumbnail, poster image, etc)
+       *
+       * See https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/blob/master/youtube-thumbnail-urls.md
+       *
+       * TODO: Do the sddefault->hqdefault fallback
+       *       - When doing this, apply referrerpolicy (https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/pull/3940)
+       * TODO: Consider using webp if supported, falling back to jpg
+       */
+      if (!this.style.backgroundImage) {
+        this.style.backgroundImage = `url("https://i.ytimg.com/vi/${this.videoId}/hqdefault.jpg")`;
+      }
+
+      // Set up play button, and its visually hidden label
+      if (!playBtnEl) {
+        playBtnEl = document.createElement('button');
+        playBtnEl.type = 'button';
+        playBtnEl.classList.add('lty-playbtn');
+        this.append(playBtnEl);
+      }
+      if (!playBtnEl.textContent) {
+        const playBtnLabelEl = document.createElement('span');
+        playBtnLabelEl.className = 'lyt-visually-hidden';
+        playBtnLabelEl.textContent = this.playLabel;
+        playBtnEl.append(playBtnLabelEl);
+      }
+      playBtnEl.removeAttribute('href');
+
+      // On hover (or tap), warm up the TCP connections we're (likely) about to use.
+      this.addEventListener('pointerover', LiteYTEmbed.warmConnections, { once: true });
+
+      // Once the user clicks, add the real iframe and drop our play button
+      // TODO: In the future we could be like amp-youtube and silently swap in the iframe during idle time
+      //   We'd want to only do this for in-viewport or near-viewport ones: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/pull/5003
+      this.addEventListener('click', this.addIframe);
+
+      // Chrome & Edge desktop have no problem with the basic YouTube Embed with ?autoplay=1
+      // However Safari desktop and most/all mobile browsers do not successfully track the user gesture of clicking through the creation/loading of the iframe,
+      // so they don't autoplay automatically. Instead we must load an additional 2 sequential JS files (1KB + 165KB) (un-br) for the YT Player API
+      // TODO: Try loading the the YT API in parallel with our iframe and then attaching/playing it. #82
+      this.needsYTApiForAutoplay = navigator.vendor.includes('Apple') || navigator.userAgent.includes('Mobi');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Add a <link rel={preload | preconnect} ...> to the head
+     */
+    static addPrefetch(kind, url, as) {
+      const linkEl = document.createElement('link');
+      linkEl.rel = kind;
+      linkEl.href = url;
+      if (as) {
+        linkEl.as = as;
+      }
+      document.head.append(linkEl);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Begin pre-connecting to warm up the iframe load
+     * Since the embed's network requests load within its iframe,
+     *   preload/prefetch'ing them outside the iframe will only cause double-downloads.
+     * So, the best we can do is warm up a few connections to origins that are in the critical path.
+     *
+     * Maybe `<link rel=preload as=document>` would work, but it's unsupported: http://crbug.com/593267
+     * But TBH, I don't think it'll happen soon with Site Isolation and split caches adding serious complexity.
+     */
+    static warmConnections() {
+      if (LiteYTEmbed.preconnected) return;
+
+      // The iframe document and most of its subresources come right off youtube.com
+      LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://www.youtube-nocookie.com');
+      // The botguard script is fetched off from google.com
+      LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://www.google.com');
+
+      // Not certain if these ad related domains are in the critical path. Could verify with domain-specific throttling.
+      LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net');
+      LiteYTEmbed.addPrefetch('preconnect', 'https://static.doubleclick.net');
+
+      LiteYTEmbed.preconnected = true;
+    }
+
+    fetchYTPlayerApi() {
+      if (window.YT || (window.YT && window.YT.Player)) return;
+
+      this.ytApiPromise = new Promise((res, rej) => {
+        var el = document.createElement('script');
+        el.src = 'https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api';
+        el.async = true;
+        el.onload = (_) => {
+          YT.ready(res);
+        };
+        el.onerror = rej;
+        this.append(el);
+      });
+    }
+
+    async addYTPlayerIframe(params) {
+      this.fetchYTPlayerApi();
+      await this.ytApiPromise;
+
+      const videoPlaceholderEl = document.createElement('div');
+      this.append(videoPlaceholderEl);
+
+      const paramsObj = Object.fromEntries(params.entries());
+
+      new YT.Player(videoPlaceholderEl, {
+        width: '100%',
+        videoId: this.videoId,
+        playerVars: paramsObj,
+        events: {
+          onReady: (event) => {
+            event.target.playVideo();
+          },
+        },
+      });
+    }
+
+    async addIframe() {
+      if (this.classList.contains('lyt-activated')) return;
+      this.classList.add('lyt-activated');
+
+      const params = new URLSearchParams(this.getAttribute('params') || []);
+      params.append('autoplay', '1');
+      params.append('playsinline', '1');
+
+      if (this.needsYTApiForAutoplay) {
+        return this.addYTPlayerIframe(params);
+      }
+
+      const iframeEl = document.createElement('iframe');
+      iframeEl.width = 560;
+      iframeEl.height = 315;
+      // No encoding necessary as [title] is safe. https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#:~:text=Safe%20HTML%20Attributes%20include
+      iframeEl.title = this.playLabel;
+      iframeEl.allow = 'accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture';
+      iframeEl.allowFullscreen = true;
+      // AFAIK, the encoding here isn't necessary for XSS, but we'll do it only because this is a URL
+      // https://stackoverflow.com/q/64959723/89484
+      iframeEl.src = `https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/${encodeURIComponent(this.videoId)}?${params.toString()}`;
+      this.append(iframeEl);
+
+      // Set focus for a11y
+      iframeEl.focus();
+    }
+  }
+  // Register custom element
+  customElements.define('lite-youtube', LiteYTEmbed);
+</script>
diff --git a/src/pages/homes/startup.astro b/src/pages/homes/startup.astro
index dc8fdae..4df1e68 100644
--- a/src/pages/homes/startup.astro
+++ b/src/pages/homes/startup.astro
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import Features3 from '~/components/widgets/Features3.astro';
 import FAQs from '~/components/widgets/FAQs.astro';
 import Brands from '~/components/widgets/Brands.astro';
 
+import YoutubeVideo from '~/components/common/YoutubeVideo.astro';
+
 const metadata = {
   title: 'Startup Landing Page',
 };
@@ -39,23 +41,12 @@ const metadata = {
     </Fragment>
 
     <Fragment slot="subtitle">
-      Step into the spotlight with <span class="font-semibold">Astrowind</span> templates, your pathway to fortifying
-      your startup's digital footprint, fostering credibility, and expanding your reach.
+      Step into the spotlight with <span class="font-semibold">Astrowind</span> templates, your pathway to fortifying your
+      startup's digital footprint, fostering credibility, and expanding your reach.
     </Fragment>
 
     <Fragment slot="image">
-      <div class="relative h-0 pb-[56.25%]">
-        <iframe
-          width="560"
-          height="315"
-          src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dsTXcSeAZq8"
-          title="YouTube video player"
-          allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;"
-          allowfullscreen
-          class="absolute top-0 left-0 w-full h-full"
-        >
-        </iframe>
-      </div>
+      <YoutubeVideo videoId="gxBkghlglTg" title="Astro just Launched.... Could it be the ultimate web framework?" />
     </Fragment>
   </Hero>
 
@@ -300,13 +291,15 @@ const metadata = {
   <!-- CallToAction Widget *********** -->
 
   <CallToAction
-    actions={[{
-      variant: "primary",
-      target: '_blank',
-      text: 'Get templates',
-      href: 'https://github.com/onwidget/astrowind',
-      icon: 'tabler:download',
-    }]}
+    actions={[
+      {
+        variant: 'primary',
+        target: '_blank',
+        text: 'Get templates',
+        href: 'https://github.com/onwidget/astrowind',
+        icon: 'tabler:download',
+      },
+    ]}
   >
     <Fragment slot="title">Be a part of our vision</Fragment>