That man was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s three co-founders. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really ...

And yet it began as a quirky idea by three former PayPal employees — Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — who activated their domain on Valentine's Day 2005, hazy about its direction.