June 26th: Chad Hurley, YouTube

Chad Hurley The speaker for our June 26th Startup2Startup dinner will be Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder of YouTube, acquired by Google for $1.65B in October 2006.

Chad leads business development, marketing and operations for YouTube. He was also responsible for the clean, simple user interface that makes it easy for people to upload and share videos around the world.

Prior to YouTube Chad was the first UI designer at PayPal, where he created the familiar PayPal logo still in use today. Following PayPal’s acquisition by eBay, Chad consulted for several tech companies and for the hit movie Thank you for Smoking.

Chad received a BA in Fine Art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Update: here are links to summaries of Chad’s talk, as well as a few video clips.

Posted June 5th, 2008 By Dave McClure 6 Comments

Tags: chad hurley, paypal, startup2startup, youtube

6 Comments

Looks like it’s going to be a great event!

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