"Learn to Earn" (How to profit from the Internet)

Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 1, 1977) is a co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website  YouTube . In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0 's "50 People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006 he and  Steve Chen  sold YouTube  for $1.65 billion to  Google . [ 1 ] Hurley worked in  eBay 's  PayPal  division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal  logo— [ 2 ]  before starting YouTube  [ 3 ]  with fellow PayPal colleagues  Steve Chen  and Jawed Karim . [ 4 ] Hurley was primarily responsible for the  tagging  and video sharing aspects of YouTube. [ 5 ] Contents   [ hide ] 1   Biography 1.1   Early years 1.2   PayPal 1.3   YouTube 2   Formula 1 (2009 – present) 3   Personal life 4   See also 5   References 6   External links [ edit ] Biography [ edit ] Early years Chad is the middle child of Don and Joann Hurley, and grew up near  Birdsboro, Pennsylvania . He has two siblings, an older sister, H