Immigrant of the Day: Steve Chen (Taiwan)
Born in August 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan, Steve Chen co-launched the video-sharing website YouTube in 2005. YouTube ranked as the 10th most popular website a year after its launch.
Chen, YouTube’s chief technology officer, was named to 2006’s “The 50 People Who Matter Now” list by Business 2.0 magazine. That same year, Google bought YouTube for $1.64 billion in stock.
Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15.After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube, which quickly became one of the web’s fastest-growing sites and was ranked as the 10th most popular website just a year after its launch.
KJ