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Steve Chen

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Steve Chen is an internet entrepreneur and the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.

After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, a website designed to simplify video sharing online.

Chen was named one of the “The 50 people who matter now” by Business 2.0 magazine in 2006. That year, he and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion in stock.

Chen most recently co-founded AVOS Systems with YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

Recent Milestones

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  Steve Chen invested in Spool. (1/4/12)
  Posted 5/17/11 at 3:19pm via gigaom.com
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  Steve Chen invested in Road Hero. (4/6/11)
  Posted 6/11/11 at 9:25am
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  Steve Chen invested in ContextLogic. (3/3/11)
  Posted 3/3/11 at 6:28pm via techcrunch.com
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  Steve Chen invested in Hearsay Social. (2/3/11)
  Posted 9/19/11 at 8:14pm via allthingsd.com
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  Steve Chen invested in ReadyForZero. (10/28/10)
  Posted 10/28/10 at 8:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Steve Chen invested in Course Hero. (7/13/10)
  Posted 3/12/12 at 4:29pm
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  Steve Chen invested in RethinkDB. (4/2/10)
  Posted 4/2/10 at 4:43pm via techcrunch.com
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  Steve Chen invested in Crocodoc. (4/1/10)
  Posted 2/25/10 at 1:55pm via xconomy.com
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  Steve Chen added a position as Senior Software Engineer at Facebook. (1/1/05)
  Posted 5/16/13 at 2:14pm
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  Steve Chen added a position as Co-Founder at AVOS Systems.
  Posted 5/16/13 at 2:21pm
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  Steve Chen added a position as Co-Founder, CTO at YouTube.
  Posted 6/22/07 at 9:01pm
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  Steve Chen added a position as Product Engineer at PayPal.
  Posted 5/16/13 at 2:32pm

Investments

Videos

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1. Facebook “acqhires” Spool team, gains mobile talent (gigaom.com) [edit]
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3. ContextLogic Gets $1.7M From Conway, Rabois And Others To Better Target Ads, Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media (allthingsd.com) [edit]
5. ReadyForZero Raises $260K To Help Cleanse Consumers Of Credit Card Debt (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. RethinkDB Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Crocodoc Raises Cash, Upgrades Web-based Document Review Service (xconomy.com) [edit]