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Chad Hurley

Also Known As Chad Meredith Hurley
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Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who served as chief executive officer of YouTube from its founding until 2010. He co-founded YouTube with fellow PayPal employees Steve Chen and Jawed Karim after working in eBay's PayPal division, where he designed the original PayPal logo, and he was primarily responsible for YouTube's tagging and video-sharing features. In October 2006 he and Steve Chen sold YouTube to Google for 1.65 billion dollars, and he later co-founded the video-sharing service MixBit.

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1977 1
Birth Date
1977-01-24 1
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1. Wikidata: Chad Hurley
  • Wikidata Q370299, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q370299 P569 (date of birth)
  • In Group: Collaborative and Social Computing
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