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The THIRD YouTube Founder - No One Remembers

GalaxySpectrum [PersonRank 1]

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
15 years ago2,413 views

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/29/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-internet/
The YouTube we all know and love got started when former Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim wanted to share some videos from a dinner party only to realize that the video clip was too huge for email. Posting the video online wasn't easy either – since video websites back then accept some but not all video clip formats.

So the trio went to create YouTube in 2005 – and a little over a year later, the website streamed 100 million videos per day and got 70,000 videos uploaded per day (roughly 1 per second). It was the fastest growing website in the history of the Internet. It was estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000!

Hurley and Chen sold the company to Google for a cool $1.65 billion ... so what happened to Jawed? He left active role at the company to be a graduate student in computer science before it was sold (but he didn't leave empty handed – Jawed got about $64 million in stocks when YouTube was acquired by Google).

The First Ever YouTube Video – uploaded by that mysterious co-founder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I remember:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/rise-and-rise-of-youtube.html

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

How do they know how much bandwidth is used in an entire year?

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

As much as the entire internet in 2000.

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