She left YouTube in , according to her LinkedIn , and has since launched a company called DesignerInc , an online marketplace for the interior design industry. Maxcy was YouTube's head of business development and was instrumental to negotiating YouTube's early licensing deals with record labels and TV studios, according to YouTube's first general counsel, Zahavah Levine.
Maxcy is currently in charge of business development for Google. Brodbeck joined YouTube sometime in , becoming the site's first user interface designer — she writes on LinkedIn that she wore a "wide variety of hats" during that time. She left YouTube in August and has since become an investor, launching a venture capital firm called Rivet Ventures , an early-stage firm that invests in women-led markets. Karim is one of YouTube's cofounders. The first YouTube video ever posted, "Me at the zoo," features Karim.
Karim never had a formal role at YouTube — instead, he was an "informal adviser" who did not take a salary or benefits, according to The New York Times. Instead, Karim left for Stanford University, where he pursued a master's degree in computer science. Karim launched a venture fund in called Youniversity Ventures, now called Y Ventures, along with Eventbrite cofounder Kevin Hartz and venture capitalist Keith Rabois.
Chen was YouTube's cofounder and original chief technology officer. Chen stayed at YouTube after the acquisition, and left in to explore other options within Google. Chen joined Google Ventures , now GV, in These days, he's an angel investor and lives in Singapore.
Hurley is currently an investor, as well as the cofounder of GreenPark Sports , a digital sports company that makes a mobile game.
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Chen and Hurley stayed at YouTube until These days, Chen is an angel investor and lives in Singapore, while Hurley launched a digital sports startup and is a part-owner of the Golden State Warriors. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. However, Chen and Hurley say they thought of the idea of YouTube as a place to upload videos they had taken at a party. Chen recently told Business Insider that this story was later concocted with the help of an outside PR firm, to replace YouTube's sordid dating origins.
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It's been 15 years since YouTube's website launched to the public in May YouTube was founded earlier that year by three early PayPal employees. Since then, it's become the most popular free video-sharing platform in the world. Take a look at the history of YouTube, from its start as a failed video-dating website to a powerhouse platform that's launched a new generation of money-making YouTubers and influencers.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Late Three early employees of e-payment startup PayPal — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim — start working on an idea for a website for users to upload video-dating profiles. They work out of Hurley's garage in Menlo Park, California. The website launches to a small subset of users. Instead, users start uploading videos of all kinds to YouTube. April Based on the feedback, the cofounders transformed YouTube into a free video-hosting platform where each clip has a unique link.
However, the story of how the cofounders got to this point is a much contested one. April While YouTube is still in private beta, first video ever is uploaded to the website.
The video, called "Me at the Zoo," is only 18 seconds long. It shows Karim, one of the cofounders, standing in front of elephants at the San Diego zoo and talking about their trunks.
May YouTube launches its beta version to the public for the first time. As you can see, the design has changed quite a bit since then — the latest redesign to YouTube's homepage was in November Sequoia partner Roelof Botha worked at PayPal with the cofounders, and learned about YouTube after using it to upload old wedding and honeymoon videos.
October YouTube sees a video hit 1 million views for the first time. The video is a viral Nike ad showing Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho receiving his pair of "Golden Boots," and it demonstrates the power of YouTube's role in marketing and virality. December YouTube officially launches out of beta, and is made available to the public. At this point, YouTube is getting 8 million views a day. NBC's complaint paves the way for YouTube's "Content Verification Program," which launched in October to help content creators easily identify videos that infringe on their copyrights and get them removed.
Susan Wojcicki — YouTube's current CEO, who was in charge of Google's acquisitions at the time — credits this video with convincing her that it would be worth it for Google to invest in user-generated content by purchasing YouTube. When YouTube is acquired months later, these firms' investments pay out massively.
The move helps the traditional media company enter the new digital age, and marks the beginning of YouTube's several key partnerships with content providers later down the road. May A baby named Charlie takes the world by storm. The second home video of the toddler biting his brother's finger — and then smiling — is one of the earliest YouTube videos to go viral.
July YouTube teams up with CNN to host a presidential debate during the election cycle, featuring video questions submitted by the public. Seven out of the 16 presidential candidates in announced their campaigns via YouTube. August Google rolls out its first ads on YouTube videos. Instead of an option for traditional pre-video ads, the company chooses a new in-video format featuring semi-transparent banners that pop up on the lower portion of videos, and can be clicked away after several seconds.
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