YouTube, as previously stated, was started by:
Chad Hurley
Steve Chen
Jawed Karim
At the time of YouTube's creation in 2005, all three were working for PayPal. Chad Hurley earned a bachelor's degree in design from Indiana University of Pennsylvania before joining Ebay's PayPal subsidiary in 1999. He primarily focused on the user experience (UX) of Paypal's interface while there. Steven Shih Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1978. When he was eight years old, his family moved to the United States. Steve dropped out of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy before completing his education. He went on to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a computer science degree in 2002. Later, he would work for PayPal.