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.

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

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

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- Want
- Watch
- Videos
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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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

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