Steve Chen

Co-founder, YouTube

 

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 revenues in the first quarter of 2021, making its current owner, Google, the second-most profitable Internet company today.

Chen, who was born in Taipei, immigrated with his parents to the US when he was eight. He was just a few weeks shy of graduating from university with a computer science degree when he was tapped to work at PayPal, where he would meet the two other guys he would form YouTube with. After selling YouTube to Google for a cool USD1.65 billion and founding a few other tech companies, Chen came back to Taiwan in 2019 as the first Employment Gold Card holder under the Foreign Talents Act, with the goal of raising the local startup scene. He has plans to develop a health-care related internet service, an idea that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Awards


2014

Carnegie Great Immigrants Award

2018

Laureate of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois The Order of Lincoln (Illinois, USA)

Did You Know?


In 2012, it was revealed that Steve Chen had secretly married his Korean girlfriend Park Ji-hyun, whom he met at a Google party in Korea in 2008.

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