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    YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The trio were early employees of PayPal , which left them enriched after the company was bought by eBay . [ 12 ] Hurley had studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania , and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign .

  2. "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.

  3. 2 days ago · YouTube, Web site for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their ‘home videos.’

    • William L. Hosch
  4. May 28, 2020 · The video sharing service, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, was incorporated on Valentine's Day in 2005, hosted its first video two months later, and launched to the public...

    • Henry Blodget
  5. 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 .

  6. Jan 8, 2024 · YouTube, the brainchild of Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, revolutionized digital media as the quintessential video-sharing platform.

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  8. Feb 15, 2011 · The video-sharing site, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, has, in half-a-dozen years, become one of the most-visited websites worldwide, trailing only Facebook, Google...