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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries .
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, [note 1] YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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Creators of comedy YouTube channel h3h3Productions. Ian Kochinski. United States. Vaush. Left-wing YouTuber and livestreamer known for his political debates. Nicholas Kolcheff. United States. NICKMERCS, More NICKMERCS, NICKMERCS Shorts. Plays Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends.
Jawed Karim. Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 325 million times as of June 22, 2024.
The original video by Pinkfong is now the most viewed video on the site. On October 29, 2020, Baby Shark surpassed 7 billion views, and on November 2, 2020, it passed Despacito to become the most viewed video on YouTube. On February 23, 2021, Baby Shark surpassed 8 billion views, becoming the first video to do so.
English. " Me at the zoo " is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, the first video to be uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features YouTube's co-founder, Jawed Karim, who was 25 years old at the time, in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, noting their long trunks. It was recorded on Karim's camera by ...
Chad Hurley. Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. [1] In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. [2]