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Business journalist Mark Bergen – who writes for The New York Times, Reuters and The New Yorker – offers a detailed account of the beginning, rise and outsized expansion of YouTube. From dogs on skateboards to InfoWars, Bergen presents the history of a cultural intersection to which people now upload 500 hours of video every minute.Bergen follows the thread of YouTube’s increasing business success as he covers the internal, executive decisions and the external forces that shaped its policies, growth, massive revenue, censorship and lack thereof.

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In 2005, while working for the company that became PayPal, programmers Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen developed YouTube as a site for uploading and sharing amateur videos.