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Steve Chen and Chad Hurley YouTube cofounders Steve Chen (center) and Chad Hurley (right) during an interview, 2007.

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YouTube, social media platform and website for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. The company is headquartered in San Bruno, California. YouTube initially operated out of Hurley’s garage in California as a video-based dating website, the logo and trademark fittingly registered on Valentine’s Day 2005. It struggled to attract users, however, and the founders changed...

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