Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley is an American entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim and served as its first chief executive.

Steve Chen: Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube. Chen co-founded YouTube with Hurley and helped build its early product and technology.
YouTube: YouTube is an online platform for uploading, sharing, and watching videos. It is the video platform Hurley co-founded and led as its first chief executive.
YouTube founding: YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. This is the startup Hurley helped create before it became a global video platform.
YouTube culture: YouTube culture comprises the formats, communities, and practices that developed around the platform. The company Hurley co-founded helped make user-created video a major form of online culture.
Jawed Karim: Jawed Karim is an American software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube. Karim was YouTube’s third co-founder alongside Hurley and Chen.
YouTube's first video: “Me at the zoo” is a short video Jawed Karim uploaded to YouTube on April 23, 2005. Its upload illustrates the simple sharing experience that defined YouTube’s early product.
Jawed Karim's PayPal experience: Jawed Karim worked as an engineer at PayPal before co-founding YouTube. Shared experience at PayPal connected Karim with Hurley and Chen before YouTube’s launch.
User-generated content: User-generated content is media created and published by people rather than professional producers alone. YouTube’s open upload model made this broader form of online publishing mainstream.
Susan Wojcicki: Susan Wojcicki was an American business executive who led YouTube as chief executive from 2014 to 2023. Her later leadership followed Hurley’s tenure as YouTube’s first chief executive.
YouTube Partner Program: The YouTube Partner Program lets eligible creators earn revenue from their videos. Creator monetization became part of YouTube’s business after Hurley’s founding period.

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