Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, he immigrated to the United States in 1986. He studied computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to Silicon Valley in 1999. Chen was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, and later worked at Facebook before leaving to co-found YouTube in 2005.