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UCSF Neurosciences Initiative Leadership Council - Support UCSF

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Steven Chen<br />

Steven Chen co-founded YouTube, a premier entertainment destination and<br />

one of the most popular websites on the Internet, in 2005. As the company’s<br />

key technologist, Mr. Chen is credited with developing the company’s<br />

data centers. He was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video<br />

phenomenon and helped lead the company through its acquisition by Google<br />

for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site.<br />

Mr. Chen has received several prestigious honors and acknowledgements<br />

from the business and entertainment communities, including Business 2.0’s<br />

“50 Most Influential People,” GQ’s “Men of the Year” and Fortune’s “Most<br />

Powerful People in Business.” He also was prominently featured in Time<br />

magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue.<br />

Mr. Chen studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-<br />

Champaign.

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