Chad Hurley, YouTube CEO/Co-Founder, talks to entrepreneurs @ June Startup2Startup dinner

props & respeck to Chad Hurley, CEO & Co-Founder of YouTube, for speaking at our June Startup2Startup dinner this past week, sponsored by Mohr Davidow Ventures & Charles River Ventures.

Chad gave a terrific talk (with no powerpoint!), as chronicled by several in attendance such as Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee / GigaOm, & Brian Solis (who took awesome pix). 

I was lucky to spend a short time working with Chad at PayPal, as well as other co-founders Steve & Jawed, before the three of them left to start YouTube along with some other amazing ex-PayPalers.  Over the next year or so, I had a front-row seat watching YouTube grow from an early alpha site to mainstream craze thru acquisition by Google into the full-blown video juggernaut it is today.

Here is a brief video clip intvw i did with Chad before the dinner:

Here is video Liz shot of Chad's talk (ironically posted on blip.tv, not YT):

(additional clips were also taken via cellphone by Daniel Brusilovsky, teen-tech entrepreneur & community evangelist at Qik)

For those geeks interested in learning more about YouTube API & technology & and their growing developer program, i encourage you to join me on July 10th & check out the Powered by YouTube Day at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA (more info on the YouTube API blog).

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Definitely lots of kudos for him speaking at the event but I bet even more people would have loved to heard him speak if YouTube was making the money they should be making in revenue.