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Chad Hurley. Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. [1] In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. [2]
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [ note 1 ] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google ...
Chad Hurley, co-founder and CEO of YouTube, will move to an advisory role at the company, TechCrunch said. Hurley is working on other projects and will focus on them when he becomes an adviser at ...
In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business. [9] On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of ...
Me at the zoo. " Me at the zoo " is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video ever uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of YouTube's co-founders. It was recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky. In the video, Karim is seen standing in front of two elephants at the San ...
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5] He was the elder ...
YouTube logo, 2005–2011. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. [1] The website was activated on February 14, 2005, [2] and quickly began to grow – in the six months to July 2006, traffic to the site grew by 297 percent.