Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. These 3 geniuses came up with the spectacular website YouTube. They were all early employees of PayPal. Prior to PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. And Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. YouTube's early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and a Japanese restaurant. The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over subsequent months. Like many technology startups, YouTube was started as an angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million; additionally, Roelof Botha, partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal, joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management put an additional $8 million into the company, which had experienced hugely popular growth within its first few months.The first YouTube video was titled Me at the zoo, and shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site.