Paul Shillito, also known by his YouTube channel name as Curious Droid, is an English educational YouTuber discussing science and technology who joined YouTube on August 25, 2011. As of late September 2021, he has more than a million subscribers and more than 203 million total views.
History[]
The YouTube channel was started by Paul Shillito in February 2016. His background is in electronics, computing, video and business. For many years, he ran computer businesses, starting out by repairing the first generation home computers, the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga etc back in the mid 1980’s.
That lead to repairing & selling computers by 1990 and online sales of laptops in the mid 90’s. By 2005 ,as an attempt to increase the sales of laptop bags and carry cases on his website, he started making short videos showing their features.
This became more and more successful and in 2006 was spun off into a separate business called iSiteTV Ltd with his business partner at the time. That went on to become one of the biggest producers of online product videos in the United Kingdom (and still is) working with most of the big-name consumer electronics brands and the biggest retailers.
In 2011, he sold my half of the video business and went looking for new opportunities. After a few years of trial and error, he went back to making videos but this time on YouTube. Firstly making tutorials but then more in the form of storytelling.[1]