1. Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube.
10 Facts About Steve Chen
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Steve Chen went to River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect for his middle school education and John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights for his freshman year of high school.
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Steve Chen was an employee at PayPal, where he first met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
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Steve Chen was an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube.
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In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer.
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In June 2006, Steve Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.
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Steve Chen received 625,366 shares of Google and an additional 68,721 in a trust as part of the sale.
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Steve Chen was listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist on 15 May 2011.
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Steve Chen was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Governor of Illinois in 2018.
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In 2009, Steve Chen married Park Ji-hyun, a Google Korea product marketing manager, who changed her name to Jamie Steve Chen.