YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are splitting up after many years of working closely together, reports TechCrunch.
The move comes after Hurley and Chen’s product incubator-focused company Avos Systems made some cuts and rearrangements to its employee roster back in February, as VentureBeat previously reported. At the time, our sources were saying that the Avos-produced streaming video service Mixbit was suffering the bulk of layoffs and would soon be shut down — a claim Hurley denied.
Today the pair announced that Avos would shift into a company focused mostly on Mixbit rather than trying to grow many different products within the company. As for Mixbit, the service focuses on letting you collaborate on creating short video clips via mobile devices that can quickly be edited and shared with friends.
Hurley will remain at Avos to lead Mixbit, but Chen will be moving on to become the latest partner at Google Ventures.
The split seems like the most logical next step based on Avos’ poor track record of services and products that failed to generate interest from consumers. For example, the company shuttered its digital magazine app Zeen back in November, and prior to that saw dismal success with a relaunched version of iconic social bookmarking service Delicious before finally selling it off to another company.
But Mixbit might be the one service out of Avos that may eventually become a hit — especially because streaming video is an area Hurley is well-versed. And now he and the rest of the Avos team have plenty of time to focus on making it better.
AVOS is a new Internet company, led by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. AVOS recently acquired Delicious.com, the leading bookmarking service. Previously, they co-founded YouTube, the world’s largest video site in… read more »
Mixbit is a video-sharing service, which is created by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. It was started on 8 of August 2013. This website gives user a chance to create dynamic shared videos. It competes with Vine of Twitter and Instagram on … read more »
YouTube cofounders part ways, will spin off Mixbit
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