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  1. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. [9] Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [10]

  2. Jun 1, 2020 · 'We had no idea how to do it': YouTube's founders, investors, and first employees tell the chaotic inside story of how it rose from failed dating site to $1.65 billion video behemoth....

    • Henry Blodget
  3. www.officetimeline.com › blog › youtube-history-timelineHistory of YouTube: a timeline

    Feb 11, 2018 · Set up in 2005 by three former PayPal employees and originally intended to be a dating service, YouTube is now the world’s most popular online video-sharing platform.

    • Co-Founder & CEO of Office Timeline
  4. May 29, 2020 · Back then, YouTube had only 10 employees, plus cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Most of YouTube's earliest employees came from PayPal, where Hurley, Chen, and cofounder Jawed Karim met.

    • Henry Blodget
  5. Nov 8, 2023 · YouTube was founded in February 2005 by three early PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. The founders created YouTube with the goal of providing a convenient platform for sharing user-generated video content on the web.

  6. May 28, 2020 · YouTube's earliest employees and investors tell the story of the site's climb to the top, full of all-nighters, lawsuit threats, and food poisoning.

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  8. Jul 6, 2023 · YouTube is the de facto video-sharing platform on the Internet, but who founded it, why did they create it, and how did it grow to be such a behemoth today?