YouTube Story

Most of use You Tube , but do you know atleast who founded it or how was it founded. Let's look a t the full story.

YouTube was founded by three former PayPal employees Jawed Karim , chad, chen.Chad Hurley, Steve Chen

got the idea for Youtube when, after a dinner party at Steve's San Francisco apartment. They taken some video's of the event had wanted to share it . They had Problem sharing videos of the event. This event sparked the idea of a creating a video sharing tool.

No company, of course, is ever founded in a single moment, and YouTube evolved over several months. The acutal credit for YouTube goes to a Wired Magazine article about BitTorrent by Clive Thompson in the magazine’s January 2005 issue. The story included the calculation that 867,000 people watched Jon Stewart’s brilliant on-air harangue against Crossfire, while three times that many saw it online. Karim says he was captivated by the idea of an emerging clip culture.

Witnessing the boom of online grassroots video, realized the need for a decent service that made the process of uploading, watching and sharing videos hassle-free. The confluence of broadband penetration, Flash 7, digital cameras and phones, and cheap bandwidth also contributed to the YouTube’s birth .They registered the domain YouTube.com on February 15th, 2005 and developed the site over the following months from a garage in Menlo Park. In May 2005 they launched in a public beta.

First video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 by Karim, it shows Karim himself standing in front of elephants at the zoo. “The cool thing about these guys it they have really, really, really long trunks,” he says. That’s about it.

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You Tube's first video

This is the YouTube's first video. Thi swas uploded by Jawed one of the founders of youtube. As expected this is the most watched that he has uploaded. This video has approx 95k views.This is 18 min long and has 2* RATING.



THIS IS THE URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

Jawed Karim- Youtube founder

Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.

Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004.

While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005. After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube. When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim's 137,443 shares of stock were valued at $64.6 million, while his cofounders each earned around $326 million.

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