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title: "Interesting story behind youtube origin"  
description: "A brief explanation of the origin of YouTube and its story behind"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-11-07  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3139/interesting-story-behind-youtube-origin  
category: "business"  
tags: ["youtube", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Interesting story behind youtube origin

![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/146445f1-0815-463c-8abc-5d7ed99285e0.jpeg) ![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/18abf91c-de76-40a0-ae84-a9fe60e41ed9.jpeg) YouTube was started in San Bruno, California, in 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. ![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/0d5ecf43-7212-4b22-aa62-76f9ee841b5f.jpeg) Hurley and Chen created YouTube to address the limitations of most online platforms in sharing videos from dinner parties. ![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/770a65af-889b-4f1a-b1de-832bf5d8bf15.jpeg) Later, YouTube, acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. ![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/366af63e-3a25-417c-abb7-cc0b85e07166.jpeg) In 2011, it was ranked among Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World", criticised for spreading disinformation and hate speech. ![Interesting story behind youtube origin](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/dcf4ddda-450a-4fe0-93d9-5ec210dd3167/images/58a05f5a-2a27-4850-9237-7aba4c4f5207.jpeg) Today, YouTube has become the world's largest video-sharing network with over 2 billion active users.

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