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CHAPTER ONE

Ambition

S teve Chen is an ambitious man. He’s full of new ideas, and he has no plans of sitting back and doing nothing any time soon! YouTube is what Steve is best known for, but it’s not the only com- pany with which he has been involved. As a former employee of PayPal and Facebook, he has gone on to play an important role in many other companies after Google took over YouTube. His next project began just a few years later. Like YouTube, it focuses on improving what the Internet has to offer. Steve Chen and Chad Hurley began AVOS Systems in 2011 along with Vijay Karunamurthy. That same year, Steve Chen was listed as one of the “Fifteen Asian Scientists to Watch” by Asian Scientist Magazine, due to his