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SHARING A VISION When they left PayPal after the buyout, Chen and his former coworkers stayed in touch. “The older-timers with PayPal continued to meet up throughout the Bay Area for dinners,” Chen said in an interview. “It was really just a wonderful mix of people.” Together, they came up with the idea for YouTube in 2005. By this point, Chen had decided he was going to stay in California. “I had just purchased a place in San Francisco in early 2005,” he explained. Chen wanted to share his new home with his friends and former coworkers, so he invited them over to visit. “I was having the first dinner party at my place, and we were taking both videos and photos with digital cameras,” he said. Little did he know that this party would prompt him to come up with the idea for YouTube.

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