Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American cofounder and former Chief Executive Officer of the most popular video sharing site YouTube and MixBit. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay’s PayPal office—one of his jobs included designing the first PayPal symbol— before beginning YouTube with fellow PayPal associates Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was mainly in charge of the labeling and video sharing facets of YouTube.
He’s two siblings, an older sister, Heather, as well as a smaller brother, Brent. Since youth, Chad showed extreme curiosity about the artwork, but then afterwards became interested in computers and electronic media during high school. He was a standout runner for Twin Valley High School’s cross country plan, which won two of its PIAA State titles with him as an associate in 1992 and 1994. He was also member of the Technology Student Association during high school. It had been reported in the Wall Street Journal that Chad Hurley’s share was $345.6M at Google’s February 7, 2007 final stock price of $470.01. He received 694,087 Google shares directly and another 41,232 shares in a trust. YouTube’s other two cofounders, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, received 625,366 shares and 137,443 shares, respectively valued at $326.2M and $64.6M. The Diary’s report was based on Google’s registration statement with SEC filed on February 7, 2007. Hurley stepped down as CEO of YouTube in October 2010 and said he’d stay on as an adviser of YouTube, enabling Salar Kamangar to assume the CEO position.