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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 ]
YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. [11] The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005, with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005, with the slogan "Tune In, Hook Up" ─ the original idea of Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim.
While working at PayPal in 2002, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Three years later, in 2005, they founded the video-sharing website YouTube. [15] Karim created the first account on YouTube, "jawed", on April 23, 2005 PDT (April 24, 2005 UTC), [16] and uploaded the website's first video, "Me at the zoo", the same day. [2] [3]
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 ...
YouTube was founded in 2005 by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen studied computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [2]
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
On October 29, 2010, it was announced that Salar "SK" Kamangar, who was in charge of day-to-day activities, would replace Chad Hurley as CEO of YouTube. [5] [6] [7] He was replaced as CEO of YouTube on February 5, 2014.
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