Who Invented The YouTube?

The YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005. All three of them were former employees of PayPal. Chad Hurley is a B.A. from the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology who was born in the United States. Steven Chih Shen was born in Taiwan but his family moved to the United States when he was only eight. Jawed Karim is a German born immigrant; he and Chih Shen studied together at the University of Illinois.

The most marketed story of how the YouTube was founded is this: Chih Shen was having difficulties sharing some dinner party videos over the Internet. Both Chih Shen and Chad Hurley were at the party, and it was then that they decided to create YouTube. Jawed Karim doesn’t believe the story.

This venture was funded by Sequoia Capital with $11.5 million US dollars. The first video on the YouTube was uploaded by Jawed Karim on 23 April, 2005 and it was named ‘Me at the Zoo.’ The company grew rapidly. Within a year, it was announced that 65,000 new videos were being downloaded from YouTube everyday. The current rate is videos running into 24 hours being uploaded each minute. In October, 2006 the website was bought up by Google and now, the YouTube is a subsidiary of the Google.

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