Steve Chen (YouTube)
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Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳士駿, born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 15, when his family immigrated to the United States. He graduated from John Hersey High School[1] and attended the Illinois Math and Science Academy and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.
In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of the "The 50 people who matter now" in business.[2] In August 2006, Chen told Reuters news agency it was hoped that within 18 months the site would "have every music video ever created"[3].
On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion.
