YouTube has come a long way since 2005. Back then, YouTube had only 10 employees, plus cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Most of YouTube’s earliest employees came from PayPal, where Hurley, Chen, and cofounder Jawed Karim met. While many have since left the company, others – like business development […]
YouTube’s cofounders originally thought “a generic platform where we could host all the videos on the internet” was too bold of an idea. So for about a week, the site was a dating platform – until it wasn’t. Fifteen years later, YouTube still reigns as the leader in video, but […]
Since working at PayPal in the early 2000s, these 23 entrepreneurs have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley and the startup world by founding companies and backing new ventures. Known for their entrepreneurial mindset and anti-establishment attitude, this elite group is known as the “PayPal Mafia.” Some are household […]
YouTube has more than 2 billion monthly users visiting the video-sharing platform for their favourite vlogs, music videos, sports highlights, and more. It’s been 15 years since YouTube’s website launched to the public in May 2005. YouTube was founded earlier that year by three early PayPal employees. Since then, it’s […]
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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is fighting back against a lawsuitfiled by Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Kimye was not pleased after Hurley posted video of their October marriage proposal at AT&T Park in San Francisco to his new video-sharing website , MixBit, claiming he violated the confidentiality agreement. But Hurley […]
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[credit provider=”Twettey.com” url=”http://www.twettey.com/yahoo-to-sell-delicious-to-youtube-founders/”] We got a look at what Chad Hurley and Steve Chen been up to since leaving YouTube, the online-video company they founded and sold to Google for $1.65 billion.It’s called Zeen, and it’s billed as an online magazine-making service.
[credit provider=”BusinessWeek” url=”http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0821_most_successful_immigrants/8.htm”] About a year ago, YouTube cofounders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley bought bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo, and used it as the basis to form a new company called Avos Systems.We haven’t heard much from them since. Until today, when Avos announced its first round of outside […]
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[credit provider=”Robert Scoble via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/2216429464/”] Chad Hurley and his YouTube co-creator Steve Chen are preparing to relaunch Delicious after buying it from Yahoo.The new site will return to some of the simpler design elements that users enjoyed before the service became more complex.
[credit provider=”Joi via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/523661543/sizes/z/in/photostream/”] AVOS, the new web company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has bought yet another startup.This time it’s Tap11, a service that lets companies monitor conversations about them on Facebook and Twitter.
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[credit provider=”Robert Scoble via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/2216429464/”] Commercial Television was born in 1939 at the World’s Fair. For more than 70 years, it was the dominant form of media — providing the platform that allowed for the emergence of mass media and national and global brands.In 2005, the seeds of change […]
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, who sold his company to Google for $1.65 billion in 2006, will soon focus most of his attention on other projects, retaining an advisory role at YouTube, he told a conference in Dublin.
