'We had no idea how to do it': YouTube's founders, investors, and first employees tell the chaotic inside story of how it rose from failed dating site to $1.65 billion video behemoth
YouTube's cofounders originally thought "a generic platform where we could host all the videos on the internet" was too bold of an idea. So for about a week, the site was a dating platform — until it wasn't.
Read the full story of how YouTube grew into a multibillion-dollar behemoth, in the words of former employees and investors.YouTube turns 15 this month. The video sharing service, founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, was incorporated on Valentine's Day in 2005, hosted its first video two months later, and launched to the public by May.
Like many Silicon Valley companies, YouTube began as one idea and quickly became something else. In the early days, when the team would meet up to work out of Hurley's garage in Menlo Park, it was a dating site.
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