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

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YouTube Founders’ Next Act: MixBit

in News on August 8, 2013 at 9:44 am PT

Two of YouTube’s founders are wading back into familiar territory.

YouTube Beats Viacom in Copyright Case, Again

in Media on April 18, 2013 at 1:47 pm PT

Check out Chad Hurley’s taunt!
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YouTube Co-Founders Hit Up Google Ventures and NEA for AVOS Series A

in News on April 27, 2012 at 10:26 am PT

If there’s one thing the co-founders of YouTube don’t need, it’s money.
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New Delicious Buys Competitor That Disparaged Its Redesign

in Social on November 9, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

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.
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Delicious Struggles Through Relaunch Under New Ownership

in Social on September 30, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Here’s the problem with buying something people love: They don’t love when you change it.
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Delicious Relaunches: Exclusive Q&A With CEO Chad Hurley

in Social on September 26, 2011 at 11:58 pm PT

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.
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New Delicious Sounds Much Like the Old Delicious, But Newer

in Social on September 11, 2011 at 8:29 pm PT

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.
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YouTube Is Six Years Old and Huge: Three Billion Views a Day

in Media on May 25, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

And users are now uploading two days worth of video to the site every minute. That’s up 100 percent in the last year.
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Clearspring Raises $20M for Audience Data and Gobbling Up Start-ups

in Social on May 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

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

in Social on April 27, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

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.

Early Adopter: From the Hacker Who Brought You YouTube Instant–Instant.fm Launches Today

in Media, April 22, 2011 at 8:51 am PT

YouTube's Chad Hurley Makes It Official: He's Moving From CEO to "Advisor"

in Media, October 28, 2010 at 5:57 pm PT

"YouTube Instant" Dude Can't Go to Work for Chad Hurley, Because He's Already Working for Mark Zuckerberg

in Media, September 11, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley: Here’s My Viacom Victory Dance

in Media, June 23, 2010 at 6:05 pm PT

The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed

in Media, March 19, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

YouTube and Viacom Find Lots of Emails, but No Smoking Gun

in Media, March 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

Who Got the Loot? How YouTube Split Up Google’s Billions.

in Media, March 18, 2010 at 11:42 am PT

Viacom, YouTube Make Their Case: Read Their Secret Papers Here

in Media, March 18, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

BoomTown Heads to Sundance Film Festival in the Fifth Annual Meet-the-Geeks Pilgrimage

in News, January 21, 2010 at 5:19 am PT

Oh My God! They Still Haven’t Deposed Kenny!

in Media, January 4, 2010 at 1:20 pm PT

Jimmy Kimmel, Norah Jones and YouTube’s 12 Days of Christmas

in Media, December 22, 2009 at 4:53 am PT

Don't Miss the Annual GadgetFest at Churchill Club Thursday, Featuring Facebook Celeb Geeks

in News, November 30, 2009 at 9:32 am PT

Don’t Tell a Soul! Media, Tech Moguls Take Manhattan for Semisecret Quadrangle Conference.

in Media, November 3, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

The Secret of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s Famous “Two Kings” Video. Revealed!

in Media, October 9, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Report: Leaked Emails Zing YouTube in Viacom Copyright Suit

in Media, October 6, 2009 at 6:17 am PT