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Chad Hurley – Co-founder and CEO of YouTube
On May - 9 - 2009
Chad Meredith Hurley (1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter Now” list. In October 2006 he 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 is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.
Early years
Chad, the middle child of Don and JoAnn Hurley, grew up near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. He has two siblings – an older sister (Heather) and a younger brother (Brent). Since childhood, Chad showed interest in the arts and became interested in computers and electronic media during high school.
He graduated from Twin Valley High School, Elverson in 1995 and went on to receive his B.A. in Fine Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He was a stand-out runner for Twin Valley High School’s vaunted Cross Country program, which won two of its numerous PIAA State titles with him as a member in 1992 and 1994. He was also member of the Technology Student Association during high school. Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Schultz once said:
On May - 9 - 2009
You can’t expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you don’t exceed the employees’ expectations of management.