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YouTube

YouTube provides a platform for you to create, connect and discover the world’s videos. The company recently redesigned the site around its hundreds of millions of channels. Partners from major movie studios, record labels, web original creators, viral stars, and millions more all have channels on YouTube. YouTube is predominantly an ad-supported platform, but also offers rental options for a growing number of movie titles.

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube received funding from Sequoia Capital, and was acquired by Google Inc. in 2006.

Milestones

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  YouTube received $8M in Series B funding. (4/1/06)
  Posted 6/30/07 at 2:16pm via com.com
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  YouTube received $3.5M in Series A funding. (11/1/05)
  Posted 6/30/07 at 2:15pm via marketwire.com
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  YouTube acquired Next New Networks. (3/7/11)
  Posted 3/7/11 at 7:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65B. (10/1/06)
  Posted 12/2/08 at 1:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  YouTube — YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Views Per Day (1/23/12)
  Posted 1/23/12 at 7:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  YouTube — YouTube Getting 3 BILLION Video Views Per Day (5/25/11)
  Posted 5/25/11 at 5:37pm via businessinsider.com
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  YouTube — YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Moving On To Other Projects (10/28/10)
  Posted 10/29/10 at 5:48pm via businessinsider.com
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  YouTube — YouTube reaches 1Billion Views per day (10/8/09)
  Posted 10/9/09 at 9:01am via techcrunch.com
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  YouTube — YouTube Hits 100 Million U.S. Viewers (12/9/08)
  Posted 12/14/08 at 10:09pm via alleyinsider.com

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Sources

1. Google has acquired YouTube (techcrunch.com) []
2. YouTube Acquires Next New Networks, Introduces "YouTube Next" Training Squad (techcrunch.com) []
3. marketwire.com []
4. news.com.com []
YouTube Hits 100 Million U.S. Viewers, Hulu Surges (GOOG) (alleyinsider.com) []
YouTube's New Logo Shouts From The Rooftops: "1 Billion Views Per Day!" (techcrunch.com) []
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Moving On To Other Projects (businessinsider.com) []
YouTube Getting 3 BILLION Video Views Per Day (businessinsider.com) []
YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Views Per Day (techcrunch.com) []