Steve Chen
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Steve Chen 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 Vent
Chen (middle) with YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley at the 2007 All Things Digital conference
Jawed Karim
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Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The
Steve Chen
…then decided to leave the university in 1999 in order to go to Silicon Valley. Chen was an employee at PayPal, where he first met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube. In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen…
Karim in 2008
Karim in September 2004