That man was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s three co-founders. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really ...

And yet it began as a quirky idea by three former PayPal employees — Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — who activated their domain on Valentine's Day 2005, hazy about its direction.

Twenty years ago, three former PayPal employees launched YouTube.com, originally intended as a dating website with the slogan "Tune In, Hook Up." The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and ...

PayPal colleagues Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim conceived YouTube in 2005 SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube has evolved from a dinner party lark 20 years ago into a modern lifestyle staple poised ...

When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating site. That explains why they registered the youtube.com domain name on Feb. 14 exactly 20 years ago.

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...