YouTube started off as a passion project of three PayPal workers: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The website initially started as an online-dating site, but over time, the video-sharing capabilities of the site far outshined any of the dating features. Following an incident involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at a Super Bowl halftime show, the three founders capitalized on the video-sharing aspect of their website, and the rest is history.