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  • NAME: Chad Meredith Hurley
  • OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur
  • BIRTH DATE: January 01, 1977 (Age: 35)
  • EDUCATION: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
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Chad Hurley is a co-founder and former CEO of the video sharing site YouTube.

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Chad Hurley is a co-founder and former CEO of the video sharing site YouTube. After graduating from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, he joined eBay's PayPal division, primarily focusing on user interface. It was there that he met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim with whom he founded YouTube. He has been a major investor in with US F1, a Formula One auto racing team.

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Internet entrepreneur. Raised near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, Hurley received his bachelor's degree in fine art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, he joined eBay's PayPal division, primarily focusing on user interface. It was there that he met Steve Chen and Jawed Karim with whom he founded YouTube, a video sharing website, in 2005.

YouTube quickly became one of the web's fastest-growing sites, and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch. There are reportedly 100 million clips viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded every 24 hours.

Hurley currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and was voted 28th on Business 2.0 magazine's "50 people who matter" list in 2006. That year, he and Chen sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.

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