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  • June 6th, 2013

    YouTube Founders Hurley And Chen Have Released An Asian Clone Of Vine

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    AVOS Systems, the company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has just launched a new app that appears to be a Chinese version of Twitter’s popular six-second video-sharing app, Vine. I hate to use the word clone, but… Clone.

    The app is called Wan-Pai, (or Wanpai, we’re not really sure due to complexities in the translation from Mandarin) which seems to mean “Beat” based… → Read More

    March 14th, 2013

    Foundation: Chad Hurley Talks Collaborative Social Content and Hints at a New Video Platform

    In today’s episode of my Foundation series, I talk with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, and founder of AVOS. Chad talks about life after YouTube, hints at his latest ambition in the video collaboration space and recalls one very important breakfast meeting at Denny’s. → Read More

    October 28th, 2010

    YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Leaving Position To Take Advisory Role

    I’m currently in Dublin, Ireland, for a (most excellent) event dubbed Founders, where I was invited to handle a fireside chat / interview with YouTube cofounder and CEO Chad Hurley earlier tonight. We had an interesting conversation about the company, although nothing particularly newsworthy came out of it, except for this little nugget: Hurley is moving to an advisory role at the Google… → Read More

    March 18th, 2010

    Chad Hurley's Take From The Sale Of YouTube: $334 Million

    You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006. His take: $334 million (based on the November, 13, 2006 closing price of Google’s stock). In other words, the young… → Read More

    December 9th, 2009

    Loïc Le Meur Asks Chad Hurley About YouTube, Formula One At Le Web 2009

    Le Web organizer Loïc Le Meur interviewed one of the guests he invited to come speak at the conference, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

    The pair talked YouTube’s product strategy but also Hurley’s recent personal investment in the new U.S. Formula One Racing team USGPE (previously US F1). → Read More