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Entreprenuer. With business partners Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, Steven Chen launched the video streaming website YouTube in 2005 and went on to serve as its Chief Technology Officer. Born in 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then worked for PayPal and Facebook before starting YouTube.
Hurley founded YouTube in 2005 with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google Inc. (now Google LLC) for $1.65 billion. It was reported in The Wall Street Journal that Hurley's share was $345.6M at Google's February 7, 2007, closing stock price of $470.01. He received 694,087 Google shares directly ...
Oct 9, 2006 · The YouTube founders talk about the Google acquisition.
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Taiwanese-American tech innovator Steve Chen is bringing Silicon Valley to his hometown. As one of the founders of YouTube, the world’s largest video sharing platform, Steve Chen has contributed to the profound changes in the way people are entertained. Its two million monthly active users helped generate over USD6 billion in advertising ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Steve Chen, a Taiwan-born American entrepreneur, was the co-founder and chief technology officer of YouTube. He worked at PayPal and Facebook before founding the video platform and, later, helped lead its $1.65 billion acquisition by Google. After working on multiple other startups in Silicon Valley, Chen moved to Taipei in 2019 and has been ...
Oct 28, 2023 · In early 2005, Karim, along with his former PayPal colleagues Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, co-founded YouTube. The idea for YouTube was born out of their frustration with the limited ...
