Chad Hurley
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"Chad Meredith Hurley" is an United States/American co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube and Mixbit/MixBit. 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 (YouTube)/Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. Hurley worked in eBay's PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo— before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen (YouTube)/Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Hurley was primarily responsible for the Tag (metadata)/tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.

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