the was founded by three paypal's ex employees chad harley ,jawed karim and steve chen in 2005. chad harley studied design from indiana university of pennsylvenia and jawed karim and steve chen were studying computer science.
WHAT WAS THE NEED????
at that time there were limited ways to share media online like photo sharing and content share they find a need to share video online so started working on a project .
on the 14 feb 2005 harley ragistered a d trademark , logo and domain of youtube and from april they started public uploads .the first video was uploaded by jawed karim with title "me at zoo" ..
the sequoia capital funded youtube 3.5 million dollors for marketing and to make youtube website stable..
In 2005 youtube became a official corporation and opened there first office in calafornia 2nd floor of a japnese restaurant with 65 employees ..
in 2006 google came with a deal to buy youtube after negotiations deal was done in 165 million dollors and youtube workers started to work with google .
now the youtube became famous
and in 2007. june they youtube partner program In 2010 march google redesigned youtube for easy use and 10min upload limite was removed and started to improve upload quality to 4k ultra HD in 2010