The owners of Youtube are Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The three former employers of PayPal created the service in February 2005.

Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.

Google is a popular American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

It is considered one of the big four Internet stocks along with Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.

The subsidiaries of Google are YouTube, Google China, YouTube TV, Fitbit, Firebase, Kaggle, Waymo, DeepMind, and many others.

The current Chief Executive Officer is Sundar Pichai who has been in the position since October 2, 2015.