YouTube is a video sharing website launched in 2005, created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim after they struggled to share a dinner party video online. It became popular for allowing users to easily upload and watch videos. The company was funded $11.5 million by Sequoia Capital in 2005-2006. YouTube offers an enormous library of entertaining, informative and preview videos uploaded by users and is a popular site for watching video content online.