Chad Hurley

American businessman, co-founder of YouTube

Audience40.4K
Fame73.9
Momentum16.6

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Audience40.4K
Fame73.9
Momentum16.6
Founders rank#24
Wikipedia13.1K

Born 1977 · age 49United States

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Born 1977
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2015

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Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from its founding until 2010, when he became an advisor to the company. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division, where one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo, before co-founding YouTube with fellow PayPal employees Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video-sharing aspects of YouTube.