Chad Hurley
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American businessman, co-founder of YouTube
Why Is Chad Hurley Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. 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 co-founding YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for the tagging and video-sharing aspects of YouTube.