Steven Shih "Steve" Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳士駿; simplified Chinese: 陈士骏; pinyin: Chén Shìjùn born August, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular website YouTube.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family emigrated to the United States.
He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 200...
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Steven Shih "Steve" Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳士駿; simplified Chinese: 陈士骏; pinyin: Chén Shìjùn born August, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular website YouTube.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family emigrated to the United States.
He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube. He has previously held the position of Chief Technology Officer at YouTube, and is currently employed by Google. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.
On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of Google and an additional 68,721 in a trust as part of the sale. The Google shares that he...
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