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May 15, 2015 · He co-founded YouTube, one of the web's biggest success stories, then sold it for billions. Amanda Lang sits down with Chad Hurley and talks about the video website that changed the world....
Chad Hurley. @chad ‧. ‧. 26.3K subscribers ‧ 14 videos. Co-Founder, YouTube.
Apr 2, 2014 · Born on January 24, 1977, in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, Chad Hurley is the co-founder and former CEO of the video-sharing website YouTube.com. After college, Hurley worked at eBay's...
- Early Life and Education
- Career
- Personal Life
Hurley was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the second child of Don and Joann Hurley, and grew up near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.He has an older sister, Heather, and a younger brother, Brent. Since childhood, Hurley showed interest in the arts, and became interested in computers and electronic media during high school. He was a standout runner for Twin...
YouTube
Hurley founded YouTube in 2005 with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google Inc. (now Google LLC) for $1.65 billion. It was reported in The Wall Street Journal that Hurley's share was $345.6M at Google's February 7, 2007, closing stock price of $470.01. He received 694,087 Google shares directly and another 41,232 shares in a trust.[citation needed] YouTube's other two co-founders, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, received 625,366 shares and 137,443...
MixBit
In August 2013, Hurley launched another company called MixBit which does video editing using smartphones.According to Steve Chen, it was Chad's idea to turn Avos into MixBit even before the inception of YouTube. The app resembles other famous short-video recording smartphone apps such as Vine, Instagram and Vyclone. Its limit of recording stretches up to 256 clips, and each clip can be maximum 16 seconds long. It also features the editing tools similar to its other competitor apps.
Formula One
Hurley was involved as a major investor with US F1 Team, one of the new entrants in Formula Oneautomobile racing for the 2010 season. On March 2, 2010, the team's personnel were dismissed from their duties and the team was unofficially shut down. Neither Hurley, team principal Ken Anderson nor sporting director Peter Windsor would comment on the team's failure to make it to the grid.
Hurley was formerly married to Kathy Clark, the daughter of Silicon Valley entrepreneur James H. Clark. They were divorced in 2012.Hurley remarried in 2020 to Elise Walden.
In this episode of Foundation, I sit down with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, and founder of AVOS. Chad talks about life after YouTube, hints at his lat...
May 27, 2023 · Chad Hurley is a pioneer of user-generated content (UGC) and online video sharing. As the Co-Founder of YouTube, Hurley had a significant role in influencing the digital revolution and...
May 7, 2024 · As a co-founder of YouTube, the revolutionary video-sharing platform that reshaped the way we consume and share content, Chad’s journey from humble beginnings to becoming an influential figure in the tech industry is nothing short of remarkable. So let us tell you all about this pioneering visionary.
