Founders of YouTube

The three co-founders of YouTube are a real cosmopolitan mix, Chen has Taiwanese roots, Hurley is American and Jawed's father is a Bangladeshi. All three met when they worked at a company called PayPal. These three successful men are all in their late twenties and already mega-rich.

Steve Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 15, when his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from John Hersey High Schooland attended the Illinois Math and Science Academy and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.
In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of the "The 50 people who matter now" in business.

Chad Hurley is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list.
According to an October 10, 2006 Wall Street Journal article, he worked in eBay's PayPal division (one of his tasks involved designing the orignal Paypal logo before starting YouTube. According to a March 1, 2006 online Newsweek column, Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of the site.

Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. Karim grew up in Germany, but his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004. After co-founding the company, Karim opted out of full-time involvement and acted as an advisor to YouTube. He then enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University.

On October 16th, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion.