Steve Chen

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Mr. Steve Chen is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Nom Labs. He also serves as Advisor at WI Harper Group and Vise. He also served as Advisor at GV. He was the co-founder and chief technology officer of YouTube. Steve arrived in Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal. On his first day at PayPal, Steve met Chad Hurley, who would become his YouTube co-founder, together with Jawed Karim. Steve was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, Steve developed the company's massive data centers and helped build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today. Steve has received several prestigious honors and acknowledgments from the business and entertainment communities including Business 2.0's "50 Most Influential People," GQ's "Men of the Year," Time magazine's "Best Invention of the Year", and Fortune's "Most Powerful People in Business." Steve joins Google Ventures from AVOS, the incubator he founded with Chad Hurley in 2011.