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Steve Chen
陳士駿
Steve Chen during the "YouTube Traditional Chinese Version Launch Press Conference"Born Steven Shih Chen
August 1978 (age 33)
Taipei, TaiwanWebsite YouTube Steven Shih "Steve" Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳士駿; simplified Chinese: 陈士骏; pinyin: Chén Shìjùn born August, 1978) is a Chinese Taiwanese American and a co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.[1]
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Biography
Early years and education
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States. Before moving to America, he studied at Ching Shin Elementary School, Taiwan for two years. He attended Washington Middle School in Aurora, Illinois and later West Aurora High School and the Illinois Math and Science Academy, later attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Business
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[2]. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube.[citation needed] In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.[3]
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 received were worth $350 million at Google's October 30, 2007 closing stock price.[4] Chen has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011. [5] He and Chad Hurley have now started AVOS Systems which has acquired Delicious from Yahoo! Inc.
References
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101030/media_nm/us_youtube
- ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-cofounder-leaves-no-one-notices-2009-6
- ^ "The 50 people who matter now". CNN. June 21, 2006. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/50whomatter.biz2/.
- ^ New York Times: YouTube’s Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders
- ^ "The Ultimate List Of 15 Asian Scientists To Watch – Steve Chen". AsianScientist.com. May 15,2011. http://www.asianscientist.com/list/steven-shih-chen//. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
External links
- Steve's Youtube profile
- Steve Chen, the local boy that created YouTube — Taipei Times, October 8, 2006
YouTube Founders Related articles History · Social impact · Criticism · Blocking · Awards · CNN-YouTube presidential debates · Celebrities · Live · Symphony · APICategories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- American computer businesspeople
- American people of Taiwanese descent
- Google employees
- People from Taipei
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign alumni
- YouTube
- Members of Committee of 100
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