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Chad Hurley

1977 - Today

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Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit, a since closed video sharing service. In October 2006, he and 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 co-founding YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chad Hurley has received more than 5,772,327 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Chad Hurley is the 456th most popular businessperson (down from 209th in 2019), the 5,712th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,306th in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Chad Hurley ranks 456 out of 847. Before him are Anders Hejlsberg, Émile Étienne Guimet, Henry Luce, Vladimir Lisin, Astor family, and Frédéric Vasseur. After him are Savva Mamontov, Jean-Michel Aulas, Reinhard Mohn, Brendan Eich, Lila Tretikov, and Eugène Lanti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Chad Hurley ranks 79. Before him are Sofi Oksanen, Frédéric Kanouté, Manu Ginóbili, Freddie Ljungberg, So Ji-sub, and Peter Phillips. After him are Dilan Yeşilgöz, Ravshan Irmatov, Virginie Efira, Namie Amuro, Kim Hee-sun, and Giorgos Karagounis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chad Hurley ranks 5,712 out of 20,380. Before him are Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Sabrina Carpenter (1999), Carmen Basilio (1927), Johnny Appleseed (1774), Catherine Hardwicke (1955), and Wil Wheaton (1972). After him are Alex Katz (1927), John Corbett (1961), Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (1920), Diane Disney Miller (1933), Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939), and William Shepherd (1949).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Chad Hurley ranks 141. Before him are Muhtar Kent (1952), Michael Dell (1965), Henry Clay Frick (1849), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Durst (1943), and Michael Eisner (1942). After him are Brendan Eich (1961), Carl Icahn (1936), Lawrence Roberts (1937), Mark Cuban (1958), Jamie Hyneman (1956), and Bob Lazar (1959).

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