Conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology.
May 29-31, 2007
Carlsbad, California
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Chad Hurley 
CEO
YouTube
Chad Hurley is the other half of the dynamic duo of YouTube, one of the most highly trafficked Web sites, serving billions of videos around the world, and which was acquired by search giant Google for $1.65 billion this past year. As CEO, his responsibilities include oversight of business development, marketing and operations for the company; he also created the interface and designed YouTube's logo. While Mr. Hurley says his overall vision for the service is to keep the process of watching and sharing video effortless for everyone, some major media companies are not as thrilled with the idea because of content piracy concerns. Prior to YouTube, he was the first user interface designer at PayPal, where he designed the first PayPal logo. Mr. Hurley received a bachelor's degree in fine art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Posts With Chad Hurley
YouTube Beats Viacom in Copyright Case, Again
Check out Chad Hurley’s taunt!
YouTube Co-Founders Hit Up Google Ventures and NEA for AVOS Series A
If there’s one thing the co-founders of YouTube don’t need, it’s money.
New Delicious Buys Competitor That Disparaged Its Redesign
Criticizing your famous deep-pocketed competitors is usually just a way to get attention. But for Trunk.ly it turned out to be pretty lucrative.
Delicious Struggles Through Relaunch Under New Ownership
Here’s the problem with buying something people love: They don’t love when you change it.
Delicious Relaunches: Exclusive Q&A With CEO Chad Hurley
The new Delicious is ready for its relaunch, with redone infrastructure and a new playlist feature inspired by YouTube. We get Chad Hurley to explain.
New Delicious Sounds Much Like the Old Delicious, But Newer
YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are busy revamping Delicious, looking to “mainstream the product” so that many more people will be enticed to bookmark and tag Web sites.
YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day
And users are now uploading two days worth of video to the site every minute. That’s up 100 percent in the last year.
Clearspring Raises $20M for Audience Data and Gobbling Up Start-ups
Clearspring, maker of the AddThis sharing tool seen on nine million Web sites, has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by Institutional Venture Partners.
YouTube Founders Are Back, and Have Bought Delicious From Yahoo
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are preparing a triumphant return to tech, launching a new Internet company called AVOS out of their old stomping ground in San Mateo, Calif.
Voices
Early Adopter: From the Hacker Who Brought You YouTube Instant–Instant.fm Launches Today
A few months back, Feross Aboukhadijeh set the geek world alight by releasing YouTube Instant. Millions of users and a few job offers later, he’s pressing play on his newest project, Instant.fm. And, once again, the likes of Apple and Google can see this Stanford University undergrad getting bigger in their rear-view mirrors.