And both had worked for tech giants such as Google and Microsoft.

Kevin had majored in Management Science and Engineering and Mike, in Symbolic Systems. Then, he partnered with Brazilian developer Michel Krieger. After that, he quit his job and dedicated himself fully to Burbn. In March, Kevin convinced investors that Burbn was a good idea and raised 500,000 dollars to develop it. So Bostonian Kevin Systrom created a prototype for a similar application. It allowed users to “check-in” with their phones to tell their friends where they were dining, strolling, or shopping at that moment. It was 2010, and an application called Foursquare was all the rage. Today, YouTube is the second most visited website in the world… after Google itself. Google took notice and acquired the company for 1.65 billion dollars in October 2006. A few months later, in November, Sequoia Capital invested 3.5 million dollars in the project.Īnd less than one year after its launch, YouTube had 25 million views per day. The first video uploaded was a short one that Jawed filmed at the San Francisco Zoo.

Meanwhile, graphic designer Chad worked on the interface of the site. Steve and Jawed, who had studied computer science, managed the website’s technical part. He told his friends about this void, and the trio decided to launch YouTube. At the time (the early 2000s), there were no websites where one could share homemade videos. He had looked for clips of Janet’s incident online but had found none. Then, Janet Jackson’s mishap at the Super Bowl inspired Jawed. They went through several unsuccessful ideas. They became friends and eventually left the company to launch a start-up of their own. Steve Chen (Taiwan), Jawed Karim (Germany-Bangladesh), and Chad Hurley (the U.S.) met while they worked at PayPal, in California.

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