Steven (Steve) Shih Chen

Co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube, Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States. Chen attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He had been an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.

In 2005, the three founded YouTube. Chen held the position of Chief Technology Officer at YouTube and went on to be employed by Google. He was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube.

In June 2006, he was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business. On October 16, 2006, he 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. The Google shares he received were worth $350 million at Google's October 30, 2007 closing stock price.

He was listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists to Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011.