PayPal colleagues Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim conceived YouTube in 2005 SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised ...

2005. At least, that's when three former PayPal employees – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – got together and decided on a name: YouTube. As Karim later explained in an early re ...

The company was founded on today’s date, back in 2005, by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. On April 23rd Karim uploaded “Me at the Zoo” which is considered to ...

The Peabody Awards recognized YouTube in 2008, a little over three years after Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim launched it on Feb. 14, 2005. I remember this because I was on the board that ...

February 14, 2005: YouTube, a video hosting service, is launched by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former PayPal employees. April 23, 2005: Jawed Karim uploads the first video to ...

It was started inauspiciously in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim – with a 19-second video of Karim exploring San Diego Zoo. That year ...