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YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
YouTube logo, 2005–2011. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. [1] The website was activated on February 14, 2005, [2] and quickly began to grow – in the six months to July 2006, traffic to the site grew by 297 percent.
Then Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt (left) with co-founders Sergey Brin (center) and Larry Page (right) in 2008. Google LLC (/ ˈ ɡ uː ɡ əl / ⓘ GOO-gəl) is an American-based multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 November 2024. American businessman and co-founder of YouTube (born 1977) Chad Hurley Hurley in 2010 Born Chad Meredith Hurley (1977-01-24) January 24, 1977 (age 47) Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater Indiana University of Pennsylvania (BA) Occupation(s) Webmaster Businessman Known for Co-founder ...
YouTube logo used since June 2024. YouTube is an online video sharing platform owned by Google, founded on February 14, 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, and headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. It is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳士駿; Wade–Giles: Chen Shih-chün; born August 25, 1978) [1] [2] is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After he co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing ...
As of October 2020, YouTube is the second-most popular website in the world, behind Google, according to Alexa Internet. [1] As of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. [2] Based on reported quarterly advertising revenue, YouTube is estimated to have US$15 billion in annual revenues.