While at St. Paul Central High School, YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim created an email system for his school.n YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim was initially rejected by the computer science program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He wrote a letter back explaining why he would be a good fit for the program. He was then accepted. He later left the program to work at PayPal, a startup company in California. He would eventually finish his bachelor’s degree in 2004.n An early version of YouTube was called Tune In Hook Up, which came from the popular site Hot or Not. The YouTube founders later decided that their site did not have to focus on a single type of video such as dating or selling an item but, rather, the site would feature all kinds of videos.n Sequoia Capital helped fund YouTube. In addition to helping YouTube, it has also helped PayPal, Apple, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and Zappos.n
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:16:05 +0000
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