Steve Chen
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in 2005.
Chad Hurley: Chad Hurley is an American internet entrepreneur and YouTube co-founder who served as its first chief executive. Chen and Hurley co-founded YouTube after working together at PayPal.
YouTube founding: YouTube’s founding was the 2005 launch of a video-sharing startup by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. This is the episode in which Chen’s role as a co-founder took shape.
Online video platform: An online video platform hosts, distributes, or streams video over the internet. YouTube became a defining example of this broader kind of service.
MixBit: MixBit is a mobile video-editing and sharing service launched by AVOS Systems in 2013. Chen helped develop this mobile-video venture after YouTube.
Jawed Karim: Jawed Karim is a German-American internet entrepreneur and YouTube co-founder who uploaded the platform’s first video. Karim joined Chen and Hurley in founding YouTube.
PayPal: PayPal is an online payments company that enables electronic money transfers and payments. Chen, Hurley, and Karim worked at PayPal before starting YouTube.
User-generated content: User-generated content is media or information created and published by people rather than professional producers. YouTube made user-created video central to Chen’s business success.
Google Ventures: Google Ventures, now GV, is a venture-capital firm that invests in technology and other startups. Chen has participated in technology investing beyond founding companies.
PayPal Mafia: The PayPal Mafia is a group of former PayPal employees who later founded or led influential technology companies. Chen, Hurley, and Karim emerged from PayPal’s early workforce.
YouTube first video: “Me at the zoo” is a short video uploaded by Jawed Karim to YouTube on April 23, 2005. The first upload demonstrates the simple user-generated video format Chen helped launch.