The Inventors of YouTube

What is YouTube?

• a website that sells homemade products

• a website with videos created by different people

• a website where you can order groceries

• a website where you can play video games

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How do Chen, Hurley, and Karim support other people who are like them?

• They continue to invest their own money into YouTube so they can support everyone working there.

• They invest in different companies and industries like technology, sports, and companies with new ideas.

• They donate to young college students studying technology in Taiwan, the United States, and Germany.

• They volunteer to help YouTube so it can grow even though they do not work there anymore.

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Read the following sentences from the text.

“When they first began developing YouTube, the three men worked in someone’s garage. They started from very humble beginnings.”

As used in this excerpt, what does the word “humble” most closely mean?

• bright and colorful

• clean and neat

• simple and small

• quick and hurried

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“When they first began developing YouTube, the three men worked in someone’s garage. They started from very humble beginnings. Chen, Hurley, and Karim uploaded the first YouTube video on April 23, 2005. Once YouTube hit the internet, it grew rapidly! By the middle of 2006, YouTube had over 100 million video views per day. Now, it is one of the most popular websites on the internet.”

What conclusion can you draw from this evidence?

• Chen, Hurley, and Karim borrowed money to start YouTube.

• YouTube started off as a video game website but changed.

• Chen, Hurley, and Karim did not work together as a team.

• YouTube started off small but did not stay that way for long.

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What is the main idea of this text?

• Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim are immigrants that moved to the United States as teenagers and changed the way people shop forever.

• The creators of YouTube, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, met each other for the first time while working at a company called PayPal.

• Companies and industries in technology and sports are very thankful for the support that Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim give them today.

• YouTube, one of the most popular websites on the internet and a place where people can share videos, was created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.

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