YouTube hosts a vast number of movies, documentaries, music videos, home videos, and live streams of events. The popularity achieved by some home videos leads unknown people to become famous, being considered "instant celebrities." The site was founded in 2005 via Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Creating the website came about due to the difficulty that existed at the time to share videos on the internet. Together, they created a simple website that achieved enormous success in a short time. In 2006 it was bought by the company Google for 1.65 billion dollars.