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{{Short description|American Internet entrepreneur}}
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| caption = Chen in May 2022
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| birth_place = [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]
| nationality = American<br />Taiwanese
| alma_mater = [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]
| known_for = Co-founder of [[YouTube]] & [[MixBit#AVOS Systems|AVOS]]
| occupation = [[Software engineer]]
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'''Steve Chen''' ({{Lang-zh|t=陳士駿|w=Chen Shih-chün}}; born August 25, 1978) is a [[Taiwanese American|Taiwanese-born American]] [[Internet entrepreneur]] who is one of the co-founders and previous [[chief technology officer]] of the video-sharing website [[YouTube]]. After having co-founded the company [[AVOS Systems]], Inc. and built the video-sharing app [[MixBit]],<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422849,00.asp | work=PC Magazine | title=YouTube Founders Launch New Video-Sharing App MixBit}}</ref> he joined [[Google Ventures]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/youtube-co-founders-break-up-as-chad-hurley-spins-out-his-own-company-and-steve-chen-joins-google-ventures|title=YouTube Co-Founders Split As Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Chen Joins Google Ventures|last=Crook|first=Jordan|date=June 6, 2014|website=TechCrunch|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref>

== Early years and education ==
Chen was born in [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]]. When he was seven years old, he and his family immigrated to the [[United States]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ilctr.org/entrepreneur-hof/steve-chen/|title=Steve Chen Archives > The Immigrant Learning Center}}</ref> and settled in [[Prospect Heights, Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaUfjvXY1K0C&q=steve+chen%2C+prospect+heights&pg=PA17|title=YouTube: The Company and Its Founders|last=Rowell|first=Rebecca|date=2011-01-01|publisher=ABDO|isbn=978-1-61714-813-2|language=en}}</ref> He went to [[River Trails Middle School]] in [[Mount Prospect, Illinois|Mount Prospect]] for his middle school education and [[John Hersey High School]] in [[Arlington Heights, Illinois|Arlington Heights]] for his freshman year of high school. For his final three years of high school, he attended the [[Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy]] in [[Aurora, Illinois]]. At the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], he studied [[computer science]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uofi150.news-gazette.com/people/steve-chen|title=Steve Chen Profile {{!}} University of Illinois 150 Years|website=uofi150.news-gazette.com|language=en|access-date=2019-10-04}}</ref>

== Business career ==
[[File:Walt Mossberg, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley.jpg|thumb|left|Chen (''middle'') with YouTube cofounder [[Chad Hurley]] at the 2007 [[All Things Digital]] conference]]
Chen was an employee at [[PayPal]], where he first met [[Chad Hurley]] and [[Jawed Karim]]. Chen was also an early employee at [[Facebook]], although he left after several months to start YouTube.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-20-employees-where-are-they-now-2012-2#steve-chen-left-facebook-after-a-few-short-months-to-start-youtube-11|title=Facebook's First 20 Employees: Where Are They Now?|last1=Heath|first1=Alex|date=February 1, 2012|work=Business Insider|access-date=April 10, 2012|last2=Shontell|first2=Alyson}}</ref>

In 2005, [[Chad Hurley]], [[Jawed Karim]] and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer. In June 2006, Chen was named by [[Business 2.0]] as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/50whomatter.biz2/|title=The 50 people who matter now|last=Staff|first=Business 2.0|date=June 21, 2006|work=CNN}}</ref>

On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to [[Google|Google, Inc.]] for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of Google and an additional 68,721 in a trust as part of the sale. As of September 2021, the [[Google]] shares are valued at almost $1.77 billion.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/technology/07cnd-google.html|title=YouTube's Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders|first=Miguel|last=Helft|date=7 February 2007|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>

He and Hurley started [[AVOS Systems]], which acquired [[Delicious (website)|Delicious]] from [[Yahoo!]] Inc.

[[File:Steve Chen (Audrey Tang interview) 2022.png|thumb|Chen (left) in an interview with [[Audrey Tang]] (2022)]]
Chen was listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by [[Asian Scientist Magazine]] on 15 May 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Ultimate List Of 15 Asian Scientists To Watch – Steve Chen|url=http://www.asianscientist.com/list/steven-shih-chen//|date=May 15, 2011|work=AsianScientist.com|access-date=June 6, 2011}}</ref>

Chen started the live-streaming food network Nom.com in 2016 along with Vijay Karunamurthy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/09/nom-com-a-foodie-focused-live-video-network-from-youtubes-steve-chen-launches-with-4-7m/|title=Nom.com, a foodie-focused live video network from YouTube's Steve Chen, launches with $4.7M|last=Lunden|first=Ingrid|date=March 9, 2016|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-24}}</ref> In 2017, Nom.com was shut down, with its [[Twitter]] feed switched to private and [[Facebook]] account left idle since March 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/18/youtube-cofounder-steve-chens-foodie-livestream-network-nom-com-has-shut-down/|title=YouTube cofounder Steve Chen's foodie livestream network Nom.com has shut down|last=O'Brien|first=Chris|date=April 18, 2018|work=VentureBeat|access-date=2018-04-24|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Awards ==
Chen was inducted as a Laureate of [[The Lincoln Academy of Illinois]] and awarded the [[The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|Order of Lincoln]] (the State's highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thelincolnacademyofillinois.org/2018-laureates-announced-gov-rauner/|title=2018 Laureates Announced|website=The Lincoln Academy of Illinois|access-date=May 31, 2018}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Chen married Park Ji-hyun, who is now Jamie Chen, a Google Korea product marketing manager, in 2009. They now live in [[Taipei, Taiwan]] with their two children. One son was born in July 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/01/19/2012011900934.html|title=YouTube Founder Married Korean Woman|date=January 19, 2012|website=The Chosunilbo|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref> The Chens are major supporters of the [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco]], where Jamie was appointed a trustee in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asianart.org/events/search?tags=family+events|title=Asian Art Museum|website=www.asianart.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asianart.org/documents/trusteeannouncementfinal07.02.12.pdf|title=Asian Art Museum Appoints Seven New Trustees}}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> From August 2019, Chen moved back to [[Taiwan]] and resides there since then, along with his family.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://startup.sme.gov.tw/NewsContent/19|title=Youtube Co-founder Steve Chen: "It's great time for Taiwan to step up."|author= Bryan Chou |website=International Entrepreneur Initiative Taiwan: IEIT|date= 14 November 2019|access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/YouTube-co-founder-Steve-Chen-bets-on-Taiwan-for-next-startup|title=YouTube co-founder Steve Chen bets on Taiwan for next startup|author= Akito Tanaka |website=Nikkei Asia|date= 21 May 2021|access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Jawed Karim]]
* [[Chad Hurley]]
* [[List of Taiwanese Americans]]
* [[Taiwanese Americans]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [https://www.youtube.com/steve Steve Chen's YouTube profile]
* [http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/10/08/2003330845 Steve Chen, the local boy that created YouTube]– Taipei Times, October 8, 2006

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