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.
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
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.
YouTube
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.
Steve Chen Professional Profile
Does anyone know who created youtube?(2 Answers)
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Chad Hurley and Steve Chen co-founded Youtube along with Jawed Karim in February 2005. They were all former employees of Paypal before starting the site.
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