7 posts and columns on Jawed Karim

Yelp, YouTube and 23andMe Co-Founders All Working on New Start-Ups

in News on December 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

In recent weeks, I’ve stumbled onto a few fresh new start-ups from the departed co-founders of current influential tech companies.
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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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Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts

in Social on December 21, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

Salesforce has bought Etacts, the contacts management tool, according to a source familiar with the matter. Etacts informed users today that it will shut down as of January 31 in order to “pursue other opportunities.”

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

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

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley plans to step down from his position and take on an advisory role, he announced at an industry event today. It’s a formal acknowledgment of a practical reality, since Hurley hasn’t been running YouTube for some time. It’s still worth noting, though: Now all three of the the giant video site’s co-founders have moved on.

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

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

The YouTube-Viacom documents released today are chock full of interesting morsels. Feel free to ignore most of them.

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

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

Google’s $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube is perhaps the best-known transaction of the Web 2.0 era. Most of the money, $1.3 billion, went to three co-founders and two investors. Here’s a breakdown of who got what.

YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen Moves On, Stays with Google

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 10:50 am PT

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who oversaw the company’s technical operations as it grew from an upstart to the world’s biggest video site, no longer works at the site day-to-day. This is old news, literally: Chen left his spot as chief technology officer last fall, though he remains employed at Google, which bought his company for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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