Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurleyis an American co-founder and former CEO of the popular video-sharing website YouTube and MixBit. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo — before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 January 1977
CityReading, PA
CountryUnited States of America
YouTube is committed to balancing the needs of the fan community with those of copyright holders.
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.
EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.
People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.
Theres always going to be a place for YouTube.
Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.
Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.
CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.
I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.
The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?
When you have a group of engineers and designers, they are not exactly the best to deal with copyright law.