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 you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.
CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.
You launch a site, and you see what works, and you continue to make it better.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.
I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.
People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders.
Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.
As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.
People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?
I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover one programme, no matter what platform it's being broadcast on. You'll see the same ads whether you are watching it on your TV, your computer or your phone.
I think a lot of people may have a unique insight or some idea that they feel could be a great solution for a particular problem, but for some reason never have a chance to try or never have the courage or maybe the self-doubt. Really, it's best just to remain naive and continue to work on things and see if people have the same problems.