Published video “Show & Tell!”.
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Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from its founding until 2010, when he became an advisor to the company. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division, where one of his tasks i…
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business · American businessman (born 1977) · entrepreneur · businessperson · also Chad Hurley, Chad Meredith Hurley, Hurley
Born 24 January 1977 · Q370299
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2026· 4 entries
Published video “Chad Hurley Live Stream”.
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Public attention spiked: 2,641 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.4× the usual 603, with 0 article edits.
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Reported net worth: $355M.
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2025· 1 entry
Published video “Sea Clearly”.
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “June 26, 2022”.
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Published video “June 18, 2022”.
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Published video “May 29, 2022”.
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2010· 1 entry
The team's personnel were dismissed from their duties and the team was unofficially shut down
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2006· 1 entry
Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google Inc
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2005–2010).
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1995· 1 entry
And earned a BA in Fine Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1999
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-01-24.
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