That man was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s three co-founders. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really ...

At least, that's when three former PayPal employees – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – got together and decided on a name: YouTube. As Karim later explained in an early re-telling of ...

The video-streaming service entered the scene in 2005 with these simple words from co-founder Jawed Karim: “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys ...

YouTube’s founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were all early PayPal employees who wanted to start a company after eBay bought out their employer. According to Karim, the ...

And yet it began as a quirky idea by three former PayPal employees — Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — who activated their domain on Valentine's Day 2005, hazy about its direction.

YouTube is the largest video sharing platform, with over 2.5 billion monthly active users (MAU). There are 122 million daily ...

The company was founded on today’s date, back in 2005, by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. On April 23rd Karim uploaded “Me at the Zoo” which is considered to ...

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...

As YouTube turns 20 years old in 2025, here are the 10 most important moments that have defined the social media platform.