Steve Chen

For other people named Steve Chen, see Steve Chen (disambiguation).

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

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, Taiwan
Website
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]

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

1. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101030/media_nm/us_youtube
2. ^ http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-cofounder-leaves-no-one-notices-2009-6
3. ^ "The 50 people who matter now". CNN. June 21, 2006. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/50whomatter.biz2/. 
4. ^ New York Times: YouTube’s Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders
5. ^ "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

	Asian Americans portal
	Biography portal
	Internet portal

• Steve's Youtube profile
• Steve Chen, the local boy that created YouTube — Taipei Times, October 8, 2006

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