Steve Chen

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Mr. Steve Chen serves as Advisor at Concreit. Mr. Chen is an Angel Investor. Mr. Chen served as Advisor at Visa. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Nom Labs. He served as an Advisor at XA Network. He also serves as Advisor at WI Harper Group, Concreit. He also served as Advisor at GV. He co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. He arrived in Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal. On his first day at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley, who would become his YouTube co-founder, together with Jawed Karim. He was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition of $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, he 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. He 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." He joins Google Ventures from AVOS, the incubator he founded with Chad Hurley in 2011. He serves as Advisor at MindRhythm. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was an early employee at PayPal, and briefly at FaceBook prior to starting YouTube. After YouTube was purchased by Google, Steve co-founded AVOS Systems, developed "MixBit", and advised Google Ventures.