Chad Hurley is a tech entrepreneur and media tycoon, who has been at the forefront of the online video revolution. He is best known as the co-founder and first CEO of YouTube, which he and his business partners sold to Google in 2006.

Hurley graduated from university in Fine Art, and initially joined eBay as part of the PayPal division, where his work involved designing the original logo for the payment system. With two PayPal colleagues, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, Hurley established video-sharing platform YouTube, and acted as the company’s first CEO. When the company was sold to Google just a year and a half later, it was the web’s 10th most popular website, with 100 million clips viewed each day and 650,000 daily uploads. Google bought the company for $1.65 billion, but Hurley remained as CEO until 2010, when he stepped down to take on an advisory role.

In 2011, Hurley again teamed up with Chen to launch the start-up Avos, which purchased the social-bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo!, and the social analytics company Tap 11. Two years later they released the video-editing app MixBit. The app, renamed Zeen, was sold to BlueJeans in 2018. Today, Hurley continues to have several business interests, and part-owns both the MLS’s Los Angeles Football Club and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. He speaks widely on a range of subjects including emerging technologies, his experiences as a tech game-changer, and the developing role of content and media production.