Key facts
- Born
- ( 1978-08-25 ) August 25, 1978 (age 47) , Taipei , Taiwan
- Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Occupation
- Software engineer
- Known for
- Co-founder of YouTube & AVOS
- Spouse
- Park Ji-hyun (Jamie Chen)
- Traditional chinese
- 陳士駿
- Simplified chinese
- 陈士骏
- Hanyu pinyin
- Chén Shìjùn
- Gwoyeu romatzyh
- Chern Shyhjiunn
- Wade giles
- Ch'en Shih-chün
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- PayPal Mafia
- Given name
- Steve
- Family name
- Chen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Place of birth
- Taipei
- Occupation
- designer
- Employer
- PayPal
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Image
- YouTube TaiwanVersionLaunch SteveChen-1.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Royal Tunbridge Wells
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- Commons category
- Steve Chen
- date of birth
- 1978-08-18
- described at URL
- www.tatlerasia.com/people/steve-chen-eng
- affiliation string
- YouTube
- social media followers
- 18900
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Encyclopedic overview
Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳士駿; Wade–Giles: Chen Shih-chün; born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur who is a co-founder and ex-CTO of YouTube. After he co-founded AVOS Systems, Inc. and built MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steve Chen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.