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
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.
Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.
Launch your product or service before you have funding. See how people respond to it before you have a PowerPoint and business plan - have something people can use, and go from there.
I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
Google has a great product. They've built a great business.
The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.
There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
Video is universal and allows people around the world to communicate and exchange ideas.
Video is the most interesting and engaging way to share an idea with others.
There's not really any safe places on the Internet.
Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.
I basically watch videos online all day long.
People want to see something authentic. If it's too polished and highly produced, people might not trust it as much. If it's grainy, if it's coming from a webcam, if it's someone standing there and talking their mind or sharing their thoughts, people trust it much more.