“When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.”

American webmaster and businessman

Chad Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman. Born in 1977, he was the chief executive officer of YouTube from its founding until 2010, and later became an adviser to the company. He co-founded YouTube with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim after working in eBay’s PayPal division, where he helped design the original PayPal logo. Hurley was mainly responsible for YouTube’s tagging and video-sharing features. In October 2006, he and Chen sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion. He also co-founded MixBit, a video-sharing service that later closed.