YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. It was registered on February 14, 2005, though it was initially launched as a video-based dating platform. The limited, or βbeta,β version was first made available to the public in May 2005.
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