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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
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]
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, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. American businessman and co-founder of YouTube (born 1977) Chad Hurley Hurley in 2010 Born (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 of YouTube and AVOS ...
In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business. [10] On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of ...
Neal Mohan (born July 14, 1973 [1] [2]) is an American businessman, and also the current chief executive officer of YouTube. [3] [4]Mohan was born in Lafayette, Indiana. [2] He spent most of his childhood growing up in the United States before moving to India with his family in 1985. [5]
Susan Diane Wojcicki (/ w uː ˈ tʃ ɪ t s k i / woo-CHITS-kee; [1] July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024) was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023.
Jawed Karim, former PayPal engineer who co-founded YouTube. Founder of YVentures. Dave McClure, former PayPal marketing director who later co-founded 500 Global and became a super angel investor for startup companies. Luke Nosek, PayPal co-founder and former vice president of marketing and strategy who later became a partner at Founders Fund.