Company · Media · Technology · founded 2005

YouTube

Video platform founded by three former PayPal employees and bought by Google in 2006.

Part of Google.

Of the 3 people here linked to YouTube, 3 are founders and 0 are still there. 3 of them also appear at PayPal. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

3 people at YouTube

Founder

Role

Co-founder and CEO, 2005–2010

Also at

PayPal Los Angeles FC

Source · high confidence

Past

Technology · Software · Media 3 / 0

Chad Hurley

Co-founder and former CEO of YouTube

middle-class · some · college degree

Founder

Role

Co-founder; informal adviser while studying at Stanford, 2005

Also at

PayPal Y Ventures Airbnb

Source · high confidence

Past

Technology · Software 2 / 2

Jawed Karim

Co-founder of YouTube; posted the platform's first video

professional-class · some · graduate degree

Founder

Role

Co-founder and chief technology officer, 2005

Also at

PayPal Meta Platforms

Source · high confidence

Past

Technology · Software · Media 3 / 2

Steve Chen

Co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of YouTube

immigrant middle-class · well-connected · some college

Connected companies

Other companies that share profiled people with YouTube.

PayPal

3 shared: Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Steve Chen

Airbnb

1 shared: Jawed Karim

Los Angeles FC

1 shared: Chad Hurley

Meta Platforms

1 shared: Steve Chen