The story of YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley , Steven Chen , and Jawed Karim might seem
like the ultimate rags-to-riches fairytale, a com- puter geek version of Cinderella. In only two years,
YouTube has become the number-one online video site, selling to corporate giant Google for $1.65
billion in stock in 2006, and supporting over 50,000 visitors in the month of June 2007. It has
morphed from an unsuccessful dating site to a thriving website, delivering user-generated questions
for candidates at the 2007 Presidential Debates. The founders themselves do not even seem to particularly fi t the role of billion-dollar CEOs. As one YouTube user commented after viewing Hurley and Chen’s video announcement of the Google sale, “Apparently when you become a billionaire, you become a perpetually smirking idiot. God, I hope that happens to me some day.” Despite outward appearances, however, YouTube’s founders did not simply stumble across a glass slipper. A closer look reveals a story of entrepreneurial savvy, revolution- ary ideas concerning new media and technology, and dedication to an identity that resonates with the young, emerging generation of consumers and artists. But where did.
like the ultimate rags-to-riches fairytale, a com- puter geek version of Cinderella. In only two years,
YouTube has become the number-one online video site, selling to corporate giant Google for $1.65
billion in stock in 2006, and supporting over 50,000 visitors in the month of June 2007. It has
morphed from an unsuccessful dating site to a thriving website, delivering user-generated questions
for candidates at the 2007 Presidential Debates. The founders themselves do not even seem to particularly fi t the role of billion-dollar CEOs. As one YouTube user commented after viewing Hurley and Chen’s video announcement of the Google sale, “Apparently when you become a billionaire, you become a perpetually smirking idiot. God, I hope that happens to me some day.” Despite outward appearances, however, YouTube’s founders did not simply stumble across a glass slipper. A closer look reveals a story of entrepreneurial savvy, revolution- ary ideas concerning new media and technology, and dedication to an identity that resonates with the young, emerging generation of consumers and artists. But where did.
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