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YOUTUBE
FOUNDERS
STEVE CHEN,
CHAD HURLEY,
AND JAWED KARIM
PATRICIA WOOSTER
Lerner Publications Company
Minneapolis
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Copyright 2014 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wooster, Patricia.
YouTube founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim / by Patricia Wooster.
p.cm. (STEM trailblazer bios)
Includes index.
ISBN 9781467724579 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
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CONTENTS
Internet Explosion
Brings Friends Together
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Chapter 1
INTERNET EXPLOSION
BRINGS FRIENDS
TOGETHER
Many
new online
companies formed
during the dot-com
boom.
I n the late 1990s, new Internet companies were starting
every day. Everyone was talking about these new dot-com
businesses. Most of the people starting them were young
adults with fresh ideas.
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Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim met while
working together at a new company in the dot-com boom.
They had a fresh idea of their own. They wanted to create a
website where people could share videos. They named their
new website YouTube.
From top to
bottom:
Hurley,
Chen, and Karim
became friends
while working
together.
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Even from an
early age, Hurley
was interested in
computers.
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CHAD HURLEY
Chad Hurley was born on July 21, 1977. He grew up in Birdsboro,
Pennsylvania. Hurley was interested in drawing. As a child,
he sold artwork on his front lawn. In ninth grade, he won an
electronics competition for building an ampli f ier .