Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurleyis an American co-founder and former CEO of the popular video-sharing website YouTube and MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo — before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 January 1977
CityReading, PA
CountryUnited States of America
When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.
Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.
Consumers are increasingly programming their own entertainment and content experiences.
YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.
No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.
The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.
Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.
If something excites you, go for it.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.