YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Leaving Position To Take Advisory Role

I'm currently in Dublin, Ireland, for a (most excellent) event dubbed Founders , where I was invited to handle a fireside chat / interview with YouTube cofounder and CEO C had Hurley earlier tonight. We had an interesting conversation about the company, although nothing particularly newsworthy came out of it, except for this little nugget: Hurley is moving to an advisory role at the Google subsidiary and will soon focus most of his attention on other projects. Hurley casually mentioned this when I asked if he still felt as motivated as he was in early 2005, when he started the company along with fellow ex-PayPal employees Steve Chen and Jawed Karim .