Who Was the First YouTuber, Where Is He Now?
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Steven Shih Chen is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube.
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Prospect Heights, Illinois. He 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. 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.
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.
In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer.
On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to 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.
Chen advises the THETA project.
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.
Steve Chen is 45 years old (birth date August 18, 1978).
Steve Chen was born in Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan.
CelebrityNetWorth estimates his net worth at $500 million.
He “realized it was the time to start a company after seeing Peter Theil build Paypal without any experience in banking”. StartUpGrind
“A current net worth of $300 million” – BankNovo
“Steve Chen stuck with Chad Hurley and started AVOS Systems, which later went to acquire Delicious, a social bookmarking web service from Yahoo. After bidding goodbye to AVOS in 2014 he went on to become a partner at Google Ventures, where he is currently working as an advisor.” TheQuint
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