When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com 20 years ago, they wanted to create an online dating site based around videos of ...

Jawed Karim, YouTube’s co-founder, uploaded the platform’s first video but stayed behind the scenes, quietly shaping its ...

When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating site. That explains why they registered the youtube.com domain name on Feb. 14 exactly 20 years ago.

The company was founded on today’s date, back in 2005, by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. On April 23rd Karim uploaded “Me at the Zoo” which is considered to ...

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...