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Chad Hurley
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American businessman, co-founder of YouTube
Film & TV
Known for
- Entourage — Videographer2015
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- Chad Meredith Hurley , ( 1977-01-24 ) January 24, 1977 (age 49) , Reading, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania ( BA )
- Occupations
- Webmaster, Businessman
- Known for
- Co-founder of YouTube and AVOS
- Successor
- Salar Kamangar (as CEO of YouTube)
- Spouse s
- Kathy Clark ( divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2012 ) , Elise Walden ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- PayPal Mafia
- Given name
- Chad
- Family name
- Hurley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Reading
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Position held
- chief executive officer
- Employer
- PayPal
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- chadhurley.com
- Image
- Chad Hurley - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2009.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chad Hurley
- date of birth
- 1977-01-24
- Commons gallery
- Chad Hurley
- net worth
- 355000000
- name in native language
- Chad Meredith Hurley
- social media followers
- 35800
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Encyclopedic overview
Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from its founding until 2010, when he became an advisor to the company. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division, where one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo, before co-founding YouTube with fellow PayPal employees Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video-sharing aspects of YouTube.
Early life and education
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