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Also known as Steven Shih Chen

Chinese-American businessman

OverviewAI-generated

Steve Chen is a person affiliated with YouTube. He was born on August 18, 1978, and has one child. His social media presence includes 18,900 followers.

As an author, he has three works listed, including *Unfriendzone Now*, *Presidential Palace*, and *Monuments Dans le Monde Livre de Coloriage Pour les Enfants*. Crossref data indicates a total of five works associated with him.

MusicBrainz identifies him as a person from KR. He is referenced by 182 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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
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
Show 5 more facts
Commons category
Steve Chen
date of birth
1978-08-18
affiliation string
YouTube
social media followers
18900
Sources (6)

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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.