Steve Chen

 Steve Shih Chen is an Internet entrepreneur who has been active in the software industry for ages. He is popularly known as the co-founder of YouTube, which is one of the largest growing platforms of the current generation. It is a video-sharing website with millions of viewers. He joined Google in 2014. Before that, he built the app MixBit. He is also the co-founder of AVOS, which is a platform that helps developers create apps in real-time.

Well, how well do you know about Steve Chen? If not much, we have compiled all you need to know about Steve Chen’s net worth in 2021, his age, height, weight, wife, kids, biography and complete details about his life. Well, if you’re all set, here is what we know about Steve Chen to date.

Biography and Early Life

Chen is originally from Taiwan. However, he moved to America with his family just at the age of eight. They settled down in Prospect Heights, Illinois. He was a good student throughout his middle school and High School years. He later graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in computer science.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Steve Chen in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, Steve Chen’s age is 42 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 25 August 1978. Though, he is 5’7’’ in feet and inches and 170.18 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 178.547 lbs in Pound and 81kg in Kilograms.

Education

Steve completed his schooling and college in America as he immigrated and his family here when he was tiny. He attended River Trails Middle School in Mount Prospect. For his initial years of High School, he attended John Hersey High SCHOOL. He just spent his freshman year there. However, his final years of High School were spent in Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois.

He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He pursued a degree in computer science.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Chen’s parent’s information remains unavailable. He does not have any siblings. As he grew up alone, he is not so much of a social person. In 2009, he got married to Park Ji-Hyun. Her name is changed now. Her new name is Jamie Chen. She is the marketing manager of Google products in Korea.

Chen has two children with Jamie. Their first son was born in 2010. Chen’s family is a huge supporter of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. In July 2012, Jamie was appointed as one of their trustees.

Is Steve Chen Gay?

Steve Shih Chen married Park JI-Hyun (Jamie Chen) when he was 31 years old. They got married in 2009. They also have two children together. Their first son was born in 2010. So we can conclude he is not gay. Thus, we can conclude that he is straight.

Professional Career

Chen started his business career as an employee in PayPal. He had the opportunity to meet Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. He also served as an employee on Facebook. However, he worked on Facebook after few months to start his app. He helped in co-founding the favorite app YouTube.

He founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in 2005. He was initially a chief technology officer for YouTube. In the June of 2006, Chen had the honor to be called the “Businessman 2.0”. His name became a part of the list of “The 50 people who matter now” in business.

YouTube was sold to Google in October 2016. They sold it for 1.65 billion dollars. Chen received a total of 625,366 shares of the Google Company. He also received an additional 68,721 in a trust. He again made a joint venture with Hurley and founded AVOS Systems.

He even started a live-streaming food network. He started it with Vijay Karunamurthy. The name of the food network is Nom.com.

Awards

Following are the awards and recognition received by Steve over the years:

• Chen had the blessing to receive many honorable awards for his business ventures. The Lincoln Academy, Illinois, chose him as the Laureate.
• He also was honored with the highest state He received the Order of Lincoln in 2018. He received the award from the Governor of Illinois.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Steve Chen in 2021

Chen’s net worth as of 2021 is estimated to be ranging from $450 million. His annual salary is still under review. He is said to have received more than 600000 shares of Google Inc. when they sold YouTube to them. His net worth is said to increase ten-folds when his assets are sold to the Google shares. He can be easily considered as the epitome of a successful businessman seeing his growing net worth.

Some Interesting Facts You Need To Know

• Chen is also an advisor. Other than being an app designer and entrepreneur, he is also the advisor of Theta. Theta is a peer-to-peer video streaming network. It uses blockchain technology.

Chen is, all in all, a package of talents. He is an entrepreneur, app designer, and advisor. His outstanding achievements at such a young age leave all people in awe. His knowledge and calm exuberance in handling things is something which everybody should learn from. He is truly deserving to be known as “Business 2.0”.