It was hoped that users could use the site to upload, share, and view content without restriction. It has since grown to become one of the foremost video distribution sites in the world. Today, many content creators make a decent living by selling ad space before or on videos they create and upload onto the site.
YouTube was founded on Valentine's Day in The platform, like so many others in Silicon Valley, began as an angel-funded enterprise with makeshift offices in a garage.
According to its founders, the idea was born at a dinner party in San Fransisco, about a year earlier, in The trio was frustrated by how hard it was, at the time, to find and share video clips online. In May of , the beta version of YouTube was up on the net, and within a month, the very first video was posted. It was titled, "Me at the Zoo," and was a second long clip posted by Karim himself. The video featured footage of Karim at the San Diego Zoo, talking about elephants and their trunks.
By September of , YouTube had managed to get its first video with one million views. This was a Nike ad that went and gone viral. Nike was also one of the first major companies to embrace YouTube's promotional potential. Roelof Botha who also formerly worked for Paypal joined YouTube's board of directors. At Paypal, he primarily focused on the user experience UX of their interface. Steven Shih Chen was born in in Taipei, Taiwan.
His family emigrated to the U. Steve left the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy prior to graduating. He later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated in with a degree in computer science. He would later join Paypal. Jawed Karim was born in in Merseburg, East Germany. His father was Bangladeshi, and his mother was German. After experiencing xenophobia in Germany, his father moved the family to Saint Paul, Minnesota, in Jawed would later study computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, but left prior to graduating.
After dropping out, Jawed would become an early employee of the fledgling Paypal. It allowed copyright holders to easily identify the infringements. This deal helped NBC enter the world of digital broadcasting. Google bought YouTube in the year for a whopping 1. The value of the stocks amounted to around 64 million USD.
In , Google made major changes to its policy. The move faced backlash and was widely opposed by the YouTube community. To voice discontent against the new policy, an online petition was signed by a number of users.
The petition gained around , signatures. In April , he invested in the initial Seed round of Airbnb Inc. Karim became one of the initial investors of the company.
No one could fathom that a small video showing a guy introducing an elephant at the zoo would change video sharing and streaming forever! Google is the Parent Organization of YouTube. YouTube is basically a website on which people can watch and upload videos. Butthat is an understanding. You Tuber offers only this much to its users. YouTube has many features in streaming its videos.
The website has a searchbar through which you can access relevant videos among the billions …. StartupTalky Krishna kumar. Today, to mark the presence among the folks, a few key equipment for YouTubers are required. But why? With the changing technologies, the taste and preferencesof the generation have also changed. People are investing time, money andattention socially and is being involved all throughout the day.
StartupTalky Baishali Das Adhikari. The brief history of YouTube and how it gained its popularity over time. Hurley wrote on LinkedIn that he "wore many hats and ran finance and operations up until the company was acquired.
These days, Hurley is an investor and adviser to multiple startups. Do worked at PayPal before leaving in September to become part of YouTube's founding engineering team. He focused on software architecture and site scalability, according to his LinkedIn.
Dunton is also a former PayPal employee who joined YouTube in September as director of product development. She stayed on after YouTube was acquired, leaving in January to become head of product at Endorse.
It's unclear what Dunton is up to these days. Heilbrun came on board in November as a systems architect after working at PayPal since Heilbrun worked at YouTube for over a decade before moving over to Google — he's still at the company working as an engineer, according to his LinkedIn. Desai is an early YouTube engineer who helped create early YouTube features like comments, related video, playlists, and the watch queue. He left the company in , but returned as a senior product manager in after stints at Essential and Samsung, according to his LinkedIn.
Gillette joined YouTube in November as the company's head of content review. Gillette oversaw content moderation, including copyright and abuse, and oversaw the support team as well.
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.
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