The brains behind the Youtube

Posted at November 15, 2009

youtubeYouTube is an online video sharing site were registered users can shares their videos  by uploading it to Youtube. Three previous PayPal staff had created YouTube in February 2005.  In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and is now managed as a subsidiary of Google.  YouTube quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.

Steve-ChenSteve Chen - The Chief Technology Officer Of Youtube Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, When he was 15 they migrated to US. In 2005 he joined with Paypal and this was after his graduation from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Then he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. These three young entrepreneurs Founded the Youtube  in 2005.



Chad

Chad Meredith Hurley - Chad Raised near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, he received his bachelor’s degree in fine art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After the graduation he got interview from Paypal and he flown to California were the paypal assigned a task to design its logo to know hurley’s skill.

In Paypal he was assigned to secure all kinds of online transaction of the Paypal users. When eBay bought PayPal for $1.54 billion, Hurley received a bonus which he used to finance their future venture. Another link that helped their future venture was their connection to Roelof Botha, the former PayPal CFO.

Jawed-KarimJawed Karim - A Bengali was born in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1980. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota

His family moved to the United States in 1992 and he graduated from Central High School. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor’s degree in computer science in 2004
While working at Paypal he made the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim. After co-founding the Youtube Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube.More recently, Jawed has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to launch their business ideas. He also advises and invests in Milo.com (local shopping search).
Some facts about Youtube
On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. It was reported in the Wall Street Journal that Chad Hurley’s share in the $1.65B sale of Youtube.com is $345.6M at Google’s Feb. 7, 2007 closing stock price of $470.01. Chad received 694,087 Google shares directly and another 41,232 shares in a trust. His other two co-founders, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim received 625,366 shares and 137,443 shares respectively valued at $326.2M and $64.6M. The journal’s report was based on Google’s registration statement with SEC filed on Feb. 7, 2007.

YouTube quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.

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YouTube quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours
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