Steve Chen

@Entrepreneurs, Family and Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The famous American internet entrepreneur and technocrat is a co-founder of the popular video-blogging site ‘YouTube’ Millionaires American University Of Illinois Business People IT & Software Entrepreneurs Leo Celebrities Steven Chen is an American internet entrepreneur, best known as a co-founder of YouTube. Though his is not a household name, his innovations have permanently changed the way that we communicate. In the ten years since the creation of YouTube and its subsequent popularity, his creation has revolutionized the viral video model, making it easier for us to document and share parts of our lives with people all over the world. Never one to linger past his time, Chen left YouTube after it was sold to Google. He later went on to co-found AVOS Systems, Inc. and create ‘MixBit’, a video-sharing app. His work on the cutting edge of technology keeps him relevant a decade after he came onto the scene, and he has been noted as one to watch in the technological field by many sources. He is known for his secrecy in regards to his upcoming projects, as well as for being finance savvy, a reason that made him a multimillionaire. However, Chen does not just sit on his wealth; he uses his keen eye to reinvest his earnings, and also makes donations to charities and other organizations of his choice. He currently lives in San Francisco, California and works with Google Ventures to find and fund the next generation of technological innovations.

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Birthday: August 18, 1978 Nationality: American Famous: Entrepreneurs, Software Entrepreneurs, it, Millionaires, University Of Illinois, Business People, IT & Software Entrepreneurs Spouses: Park Ji-hyun (Jamie Chen) Known as: Steven Shih Universities: University Of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign John Hersey High School Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Notable Alumnis: University Of Illinois Information Detail Birthday August 18, 1978 Nationality American Famous Entrepreneurs, Software Entrepreneurs, it, Millionaires, University Of Illinois, Business People, IT & Software Entrepreneurs Spouses Park Ji-hyun (Jamie Chen) Known as Steven Shih Universities University Of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign John Hersey High School Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Notable Alumnis University Of Illinois Founder / Co-Founder AVOS Systems YouTube Birth Place Taipei Height 170cm Gender Male Net Worth $300 million as of Apr 7,2017 Sun Sign Leo Born in Taipei Famous as Entrepreneur

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Chen is married to Park Ji-hyun (now Jamie Chen), a product marketing manager for Google Korea. The couple exchanged the wedding vows in 2009 and welcomed their son a year later. Unsplash Personal Life

Steven Shih Chen was born on 18th August 1978, in Taipei, Taiwan. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1993, and settled in Illinois. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After graduating from ‘Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy’, where he finished high school, he attended the ‘University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign’. He graduated in 2002 with a degree in computer science. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Chen worked at ‘PayPal’ when he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, the other two founders of ‘YouTube’. He then moved from ‘PayPal’ to work for ‘Facebook’, which he quit several months after to found ‘YouTube’. Unsplash Career

In 2005, he and the other two co-founders launched ‘YouTube’ and Chen held the position of Chief Technology Officer. The site grew rapidly, and within months they announced that they were receiving 100 million video views every day, and that 65,000 new videos were uploaded per day. Unsplash Career

In 2006, the site was ranked as the 10th most popular website. That June, they entered into a marketing partnership with NBC. They sold the company that year to Google for the price of $1.65 billion dollar in stock. Unsplash Career

Chen started another internet company, ‘AVOS Systems, Inc.’, with Chad Hurley and Vijay Karunamurthy. In April 2011, AVOS purchased ‘Delicious’, a social bookmarking website, from ‘Yahoo’. Unsplash Career

In May 2011 they purchased ‘Tap 11’, a social analytics company; however, they sold Tap 11 last year. AVOS’ sole focus as a company right now is ‘MixBit’, an app that allows you to create and share short videos. It is in direct competition with ‘Instagram’ and ‘Vine’. Unsplash Career

Chen is best known for the creation of ‘YouTube’ in 2005. After receiving a startup investment from Sequoia Capital to the tune of $11.5 million the founding team offered a beta test to the public in May, and officially launched the site in November. Unsplash Major Works

After their incredible growth, Chen and his partners sold the company. Chen received 625,366 shares of Google, which were reported to be worth $326 million, and an additional 68,721 in trust. Unsplash Major Works

‘YouTube’ is currently the major provider of online video in the United States, and is ranked third behind Google and Facebook as one of the most visited sites on the web. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	August 18, 1978
Nationality	American
Famous	Entrepreneurs, Software Entrepreneurs, it, Millionaires, University Of Illinois, Business People, IT & Software Entrepreneurs
Spouses	Park Ji-hyun (Jamie Chen)
Known as	Steven Shih
Universities	University Of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign John Hersey High School Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Notable Alumnis	University Of Illinois
Founder / Co-Founder	AVOS Systems YouTube
Birth Place	Taipei
Height	170cm
Gender	Male
Net Worth	$300 million as of Apr 7,2017
Sun Sign	Leo
Born in	Taipei
Famous as	Entrepreneur

Steve Chen

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Aug 18, 1978

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