YouTube Founder Chad Hurley, Steve Chen And Jawed Karim - YouTube was founded in February 14, 2005, San Mateo, California, United States by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who previously was the first employee of PayPal. Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to a story published in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea of YouTube in the first months of 2005 after having a hard time video sharing dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not come to the party and reject the party never happened, while Chen commented that the idea of YouTube tercetuskan after a dinner party "seems reinforced by a method of marketing that focuses on creating a story that is easy to digest consumers".
YouTube began as a pioneering technology company funded by an investment of $ 11.5 million from Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006. YouTube's first office located above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com active on February 14, 2005 and the site is developed in the following months.
The first video on YouTube, entitled "Me at the zoo". The video featured co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo. This video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and still exist today in this site.
Selection of the name www.youtube.com led to problems with the like-named sites, www.utube.com. The owner of the site, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after the site was flooded with visitors who want to find YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of the site into www.utubeonline.com.
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it has bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in shares. This Agreement was completed on November 13, 2006. Google does not provide detailed information on the operating costs and revenue YouTube YouTube in 2007 written as "not material" in the form filling required.
October 2010, Hurley said he would resign from the post of CEO of YouTube and advisory company. Salar Kamangar would take over control of the company.
In November 2011, Google's social networking integrates directly with YouTube and Chrome web browser, so that YouTube videos can be watched on Google+. In December 2011, YouTube launched a new interface. Video channel is shown in the middle column of the main page, just like a news feed of social networking sites. At the same time, the new version of the YouTube logo are fitted with a darker shade of red. This is their first design change since October 2006.
YouTube began as a pioneering technology company funded by an investment of $ 11.5 million from Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006. YouTube's first office located above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www.youtube.com active on February 14, 2005 and the site is developed in the following months.The first video on YouTube, entitled "Me at the zoo". The video featured co-founder Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo. This video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and still exist today in this site.
Selection of the name www.youtube.com led to problems with the like-named sites, www.utube.com. The owner of the site, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after the site was flooded with visitors who want to find YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of the site into www.utubeonline.com.
In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it has bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in shares. This Agreement was completed on November 13, 2006. Google does not provide detailed information on the operating costs and revenue YouTube YouTube in 2007 written as "not material" in the form filling required.
October 2010, Hurley said he would resign from the post of CEO of YouTube and advisory company. Salar Kamangar would take over control of the company.
In November 2011, Google's social networking integrates directly with YouTube and Chrome web browser, so that YouTube videos can be watched on Google+. In December 2011, YouTube launched a new interface. Video channel is shown in the middle column of the main page, just like a news feed of social networking sites. At the same time, the new version of the YouTube logo are fitted with a darker shade of red. This is their first design change since October 2006.
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