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Steve Chen, along with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, founded YouTube in 2005. He and Hurley sold the company to Google in 2006 for $1.65 Billion.
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Fast Facts:
- Born: August, 1978
- Position: CTO, YouTube
- Grew up in Taiwan
- Age 15, family emigrated to a suburb of Chicago
- Attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Chen was an early employee of Paypal
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Early Life
Steve Chen was born and raised in Taiwan until the age of eight. He moved with his family to Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. -
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After graduation he worked for PayPal, where he met coworkers Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. The three broke off to form YouTube in 2005. In 2006, they sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion, and Chen is currently serving as its CTO. Chen's shares in Google were valued at $350 million in October, 2007. -
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Ron Christie Chen Driver Card Corzine Before Budget Gets Declared Steve Oroho... http://bit.ly/2L9rB5
@Encyclocenter | November 09, 2009 08:18 AM -
YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal
@nithinsr | November 07, 2009 06:07 AM -
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.. Well, you three boys are getting a lovely gift basket!!! Bless your hearts!
@jafane5 | November 07, 2009 01:58 AM -
Asst Commish Mike Daniels with the bulk of the tweets today from #CSUN. Head SID Mike Villamor will be in SLO w me (Steve Chen, @BigWestMD)
@BigWestLive | November 05, 2009 08:10 PM -
FYI, I'll be in SLO (Steve Chen - follow @BigWestMD to hear whatever's on my mind). Asst Commish Mike Daniels with the tweets from #CSUN.
@BigWest_WSoccer | November 05, 2009 05:20 AM
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After supplying something known as "additional music" to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island</...
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View All Steve Chen Questions (130) | Ask a QuestionWhy did the actor playing Steve Rhoades leave "Married.. With Children"? (1 Answer)---Quote--- Steve was written out of the show in the middle of the fourth season; Garrison had decided he no longer wanted to be tied down to a weekly television ... read moreHow will Apple Stock (aapl) be effected when Steve Jobs dies? (3 Answers)I definitely think it would drop for a time. Maybe month while the company restructures and they name a successor. Depending on who's named and how he works out will ... read more
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