Steve Chen
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Chen in 2007
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Steven Shih Chen August 18, 1978 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Occupation | Co-Founder of AVOS |
| Known for | Co-Founder of YouTube |
| Net worth | $300 million |
| Spouse(s) | Park Ji-hyun (Jamie Chen) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | YouTube |
Steven Shih "Steve" Chen (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: Chén Shìjùn; born in August 18, 1978) is a Taiwanese-born American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders and the previous chief technology officer of the popular website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States. He went to River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect for his middle school education and John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights for his freshman year of high school. For his final three years of high school, he attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he studied computer science. He graduated in 2002.
Chen was an employee at the industry financial company PayPal, where he first met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube.
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