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
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.
Theres always going to be a place for YouTube.
We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation,
CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders.
YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.
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.