Steve Chen is an Internet entrepreneur credited to have co-founded the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Born on August 18, 1978, Chen and his family moved from Taipei to the US when he was 15 years old. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an exceptional student, and soon joined PayPal. There he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Chen also worked with Facebook before launching YouTube.
In 2005, Chad, Chen and Karim together released the popular video sharing and viewing online portal, thereby creating history. The site soon had millions of subscribers all over the world, and was named one of the 10 most important sites within a year. Chen served in the position of the chief technology officer.
In 2006, YouTube was sold to the Google Inc. Subsequently, Chen and his friends moved to work on other projects. The video sharing app Mix-Bit and internet company AVOS Systems were two of them. In 2014, Chen joined Google Ventures.