Almost all Internet users to know YouTube. All elements of age, ranging from children, adolescents and the elderly are already familiar will these video sharing sites. Sites owned by the largest internet company - Google - has become one of the sites most visited by Internet users from around the world.
According to Alexa.com appraiser website that provides information about the number of visitors to a site, YouTube is the site of the third most visited on the internet after Google and Facebook, commencing in February 2014.
3 Ones Founder Youtube
Before owned by Google, YouTube is a small site that was born in a garage. Precisely on February 14, 2005, three true geek begin work to draft a web site that is now known by billions of people around the world. The third person is behind the success of YouTube Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who first met when he became the first employees at PayPal.
1. Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley who has a long name Chad Meredith Hurley started as a web designer who is an American. Chad was born on July 24, 1977 in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, United States and is the son of the couple Don and Joann Hurley who grew up with her sister Heather and his brother Brent in Birdsboro. Since childhood, Chad does have shown their talents and interests in the art world. But then he switched to pursue the electronic media and computers in high school.
Schools that become the place to channel his interest is the Twin Valley High School in Elverson who is also a place to teach children with special needs for his mother. Chad is also well known as a runner who stand out for the Cross Country course at his school by getting two PIAA state title in 1992 and 1994. Two of these titles make himself appointed as a representative of a cross-running program in the school universe. In addition, he also became a member of Technology Student Association at the time.
Graduated from Twin Valley in 1995, Chad Hurley and then continued his studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Four years passed, finally she earned a BA Fine Arts in 1999. As before graduating Chad has accepted to work in PayPal, so he immediately went to California to show his artistic talent in designing the company logo. And his work has become the official logo of the company until now.
2. Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen, familiarly called Steve Chen was born on August 18, 1978. Judging from the name alone, it appears that this man comes from Asian descent. Chen was born and raised in Taipei County, Taiwan for 15 years and then followed her family to migrate to the United States.
Then he went into the school with School River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Once it goes to John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights High School in the first year and into the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for the past three years.
After graduation, Chen entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to major in computer science. In 2002, he successfully graduated and then worked as the first employees at PayPal as progammer.
3. Jawed Karim
The last person to be a YouTube founder Jawed Karim is. Men Bangladesh-German descent, was born in Merseburg, East Germany on October 28, 1979. Just over a year in Merseburg, Karim crossing the Berlin Wall to settle in Neuss, West Germany in 1980. When she was only 13 years old, Karim and his family moved to United States of America. His move to the United States two years later after the Reunification of Germany (German Reunification) which is in 1992.
After being in America, Karim directly go to school. Central High School in Minnesota was the first school in America. After graduation, he was accepted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, majoring in computer science. Although the study in place and the same department with Steve Chen, but the two have never met. Just as Chad Hurley, Karim has also been accepted as one of the first employees at PayPal. In 2004, he finally earned a Bachelor of Science and instantly resume its work at PayPal.
Establishing story YouTube
As the first employees at PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim met and became friends. The first friendship forged between them started from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Both have the same view about creating technology-based business that makes them more familiar. When eBay bought PayPal for $ 1.54 billion, both get a big bonus in the form of an injection of capital. Seemed to be a bridge connecting their business that has been talked about, Chad and Chen agreed to build a company. After that, the two stops of PayPal and then worked temporarily as a senior engineer at Facebook.
The story of the beginning of the idea to make a video sharing site that originated from a pique both. January 2005, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley met in the event of a dinner party in San Francisco. After taking a couple of videos, both difficult to split the video because the file size is too large. They can not send video via email, knowing that Karim did not attend the event. Long story short, eventually the three of them decided to make a video sharing website that makes it easy for users to upload and watch video that is currently known as YouTube.
After successfully gave birth to YouTube in the next month, some way of marketing they have done as spreading via email from one friend to another friend. Experts try to approach the mass media to promote this site as well they have done. But when it is, no one has been interested and consequently the three of them seem frustrating. Success will be the success of sites that have been conceivable, seemed to sink and disappear.
The success of YouTube
However, the sustained growth they always do each month with funding provided by Sequoia Capital for $ 11.5 million between November 2005 and April 2006. The growth of the site began in July 2006. More than 65,000 videos uploaded every day and received 100 million visits video per day is an achievement for the month. Growth charts this site continues to rise in the following months. And in October 2006, Google, Inc. Official bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in stock.
Chad Hurley is CEO of YouTube acquire 694 087 shares plus 41 232 in the form of a trust with a total value of more than $ 345 million. While Steven Chen earned $ 326 million from 625 366 pieces plus 68 721. Because at that time Karim was no longer on YouTube, so he only had 137 443 shares with a value of $ 64 million. Sequoia Capital who became investors acquire 941 027 which is valued at $ 442 million.
YouTube's rapid development makes this site into one of the largest sites. In fact, it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube equaling the consumption of household broadband internet in 2000. June 2008, Forbes magazine estimated in an article YouTube revenue in 2008 reached $ 200 million from the sale of advertising. May 2010, YouTube was reported serving more than two billion videos per day, and the following year in May 2011 the site has received more than three billion visits per day. And recent data obtained, on YouTube in January 2012 stated that the number of visits on this site have achieve the four billion per day.
To be able to follow in their footsteps set up a website for YouTube may indeed something that is still very much to be achieved, but the main thing that can be learned from the three companions are how their dedication in realizing what has become their common goal. Even though there must be a "price" paid for all of it, proved to be all the work done wholeheartedly will give a satisfactory result hearts as well.
According to Alexa.com appraiser website that provides information about the number of visitors to a site, YouTube is the site of the third most visited on the internet after Google and Facebook, commencing in February 2014.
3 Ones Founder Youtube
Before owned by Google, YouTube is a small site that was born in a garage. Precisely on February 14, 2005, three true geek begin work to draft a web site that is now known by billions of people around the world. The third person is behind the success of YouTube Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who first met when he became the first employees at PayPal.
1. Chad Hurley
Schools that become the place to channel his interest is the Twin Valley High School in Elverson who is also a place to teach children with special needs for his mother. Chad is also well known as a runner who stand out for the Cross Country course at his school by getting two PIAA state title in 1992 and 1994. Two of these titles make himself appointed as a representative of a cross-running program in the school universe. In addition, he also became a member of Technology Student Association at the time.
Graduated from Twin Valley in 1995, Chad Hurley and then continued his studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Four years passed, finally she earned a BA Fine Arts in 1999. As before graduating Chad has accepted to work in PayPal, so he immediately went to California to show his artistic talent in designing the company logo. And his work has become the official logo of the company until now.
2. Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen, familiarly called Steve Chen was born on August 18, 1978. Judging from the name alone, it appears that this man comes from Asian descent. Chen was born and raised in Taipei County, Taiwan for 15 years and then followed her family to migrate to the United States.
Then he went into the school with School River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Once it goes to John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights High School in the first year and into the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for the past three years.
After graduation, Chen entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to major in computer science. In 2002, he successfully graduated and then worked as the first employees at PayPal as progammer.
3. Jawed Karim
After being in America, Karim directly go to school. Central High School in Minnesota was the first school in America. After graduation, he was accepted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Illinois, majoring in computer science. Although the study in place and the same department with Steve Chen, but the two have never met. Just as Chad Hurley, Karim has also been accepted as one of the first employees at PayPal. In 2004, he finally earned a Bachelor of Science and instantly resume its work at PayPal.
Establishing story YouTube
As the first employees at PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim met and became friends. The first friendship forged between them started from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Both have the same view about creating technology-based business that makes them more familiar. When eBay bought PayPal for $ 1.54 billion, both get a big bonus in the form of an injection of capital. Seemed to be a bridge connecting their business that has been talked about, Chad and Chen agreed to build a company. After that, the two stops of PayPal and then worked temporarily as a senior engineer at Facebook.
The story of the beginning of the idea to make a video sharing site that originated from a pique both. January 2005, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley met in the event of a dinner party in San Francisco. After taking a couple of videos, both difficult to split the video because the file size is too large. They can not send video via email, knowing that Karim did not attend the event. Long story short, eventually the three of them decided to make a video sharing website that makes it easy for users to upload and watch video that is currently known as YouTube.
After successfully gave birth to YouTube in the next month, some way of marketing they have done as spreading via email from one friend to another friend. Experts try to approach the mass media to promote this site as well they have done. But when it is, no one has been interested and consequently the three of them seem frustrating. Success will be the success of sites that have been conceivable, seemed to sink and disappear.
The success of YouTube
However, the sustained growth they always do each month with funding provided by Sequoia Capital for $ 11.5 million between November 2005 and April 2006. The growth of the site began in July 2006. More than 65,000 videos uploaded every day and received 100 million visits video per day is an achievement for the month. Growth charts this site continues to rise in the following months. And in October 2006, Google, Inc. Official bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in stock.
Chad Hurley is CEO of YouTube acquire 694 087 shares plus 41 232 in the form of a trust with a total value of more than $ 345 million. While Steven Chen earned $ 326 million from 625 366 pieces plus 68 721. Because at that time Karim was no longer on YouTube, so he only had 137 443 shares with a value of $ 64 million. Sequoia Capital who became investors acquire 941 027 which is valued at $ 442 million.
YouTube's rapid development makes this site into one of the largest sites. In fact, it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube equaling the consumption of household broadband internet in 2000. June 2008, Forbes magazine estimated in an article YouTube revenue in 2008 reached $ 200 million from the sale of advertising. May 2010, YouTube was reported serving more than two billion videos per day, and the following year in May 2011 the site has received more than three billion visits per day. And recent data obtained, on YouTube in January 2012 stated that the number of visits on this site have achieve the four billion per day.
To be able to follow in their footsteps set up a website for YouTube may indeed something that is still very much to be achieved, but the main thing that can be learned from the three companions are how their dedication in realizing what has become their common goal. Even though there must be a "price" paid for all of it, proved to be all the work done wholeheartedly will give a satisfactory result hearts as well.
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