The founders of YouTube are the people of the year.

In yesterday's review of nominees Webby Awards, we completely looked at one important and, without exaggeration, a significant fact. The nomination “Man of the Year” was given to Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, co-founders of the YouTube service.

In just one year, these two young people created an innovative web service from scratch, made it super-popular and sold it very well for $ 1.65 billion. The award was awarded “with recognition of the leading role in video sharing sensation, which revolutionized the online entertainment market and became a symbol The new era of the Internet .



We have already given detailed calculations of how many hundreds of millions Steve and Chad received (more than $ 300 million each), as well as their friend who went out of business at an early stage because he did not want to leave the university.
')
The possibility of sudden enrichment in such a short time seems simply incredible, given the young age of entrepreneurs, lack of experience and knowledge. However, the fantastic success story becomes much more prosaic if you look at Chad's wife Hurley . This is the daughter of James Clark, the legendary businessman from Silicon Valley, who was the founder or co-founder of several millionaire companies, including Silicon Graphics and Netscape.