Steve Chen Quotes

Taiwan, Businessman
August 18, 1978

Steven Shih Chen is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

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By augmenting the pages in the upload process with educational text regarding the type of content that can be uploaded to YouTube, we have seen a sharp overall reduction with users uploading copyrighted materials.

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- Process
- Text
- YouTube

There's just not that many videos I want to watch.

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- Want
- Watch
- Videos
YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.

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Our goal is to have YouTube on every screen - to take it from the PC to the living room and the mobile phone.

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- Goal
- Screen
- Every
Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

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From our experiences with the site in Japan, we've come to ask, 'What can we learn about syndicating content from mobile devices and getting it up on YouTube?'

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- Learn
- Content
- YouTube
What we have noticed at YouTube is that many users who have uploaded infringing content are unaware that it's illegal to do so.

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Everybody carries a phone with them, but they may not have a computer.

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- Computer
- Everybody
- Phone
Every user has something to say.

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- Something
- Say
- User