YouTube co-founder Chen: Entrepreneurship is the addiction of Silicon Valley people

YouTube co-founder Chen Beijing Morning News

"I want to live a life that's never boring."

This year's 33-year-old Chinese youth Chen looks like a big boy, when he is in front of you in order to try to speak Chinese and show a shy expression, you will easily forget the miracle that happened to him.

Chen, who grew up in the United States in February 2005, co-founded YouTube with two founders, a year after YouTube was bought by Google at $1.65 billion worth of 13 billion yuan, Chen known as the upstart of Silicon Valley. But in a few years, Chen unexpectedly chose to leave Google and start a career again, starting from scratch. "Entrepreneurship is the addiction of Silicon Valley people, I don't want to live too boring." Chen told the Beijing Morning News reporter.

Yesterday, Chen came to Beijing to attend an industry summit organised by innovation workshops and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31877.html "> The world's largest technology blog TechCrunch, About his entrepreneurial legends and dreams, he also brought a biography called "20 months to earn 13 billion". However, for this book, Chen himself originally conceived of the name is "never boring."

"Entrepreneurship is the addiction of Silicon Valley people"

Beijing Morning Post: You are said to have been relaxing for a while after selling YouTube to Google.

Chen: At that time the body out of the situation, did a craniotomy, also very dangerous, so I let myself relax a bit, in fact, a little depressed, always think of themselves in the end is lucky or unfortunate. Later on, on the one hand, pleasure is not the life I want, on the other hand, I feel that if I rest, I am sorry google gives me the salary.

Beijing Morning Post: So you can also choose to search for entrepreneurial opportunities within Google, how to choose to leave?

Chen: Well, I prefer the feeling of a small company to start a business. In Google, a lot of smart people, YouTube culture is to promote tolerance of all points of view, so we always brainstorming, but by contrast, I prefer obsessed ahead of the entrepreneurial days, entrepreneurship is Silicon Valley addicts.

"It's not fun to go the way others walk."

"Beijing Morning Post": Will you miss YouTube?

Chen: Of course, YouTube after the sale to Google, we have a very enjoyable office environment, the office has a swimming pool, even the slide. With a Google card, you can go anywhere in the global Google office.

"Beijing Morning Post": What about the office now?

Chen: We went back to YouTube, the first "start" Town in San Mateo, rented an office in the second floor of a restaurant.

Beijing Morning Post: How long does it take to work each week?

Chen: Ah, for a long time, 80-100 hours. I'm sorry for my one-year-old son.

Beijing Morning Post: There must be a lot of people ask you why there is so much money still in business, still so hard?

Chen: Actually, when I was in college, I wanted to be a millionaire, and then I thought about being a billionaire, and when I sold YouTube to Google, the company was worth 1.65 billion dollars in Google stock. But then I suffered a sudden pain. On that day, as the new media spokesperson, we just witnessed the U.S. presidential candidates in the "YouTube" live debate, in the sense of the most recognized by the world, I learned that I was suffering from a brain tumor, very frustrated and discouraged.

The Beijing Morning Post: Luckily it was all over, and some people went through it and really wanted to rest.

Chen: Many people advised me to rest, said I made a lot of money but do not know how to enjoy, but I want to say to them, money is not an end, do not take it as a goal.

Beijing Morning Post: What do you do for a purpose?

Chen: If I lost my way in the forest, there were two choices, a man with a track and a rut, and I would certainly choose the latter, because it would be boring to walk the way that others have traveled.

"Delicious into China"

Beijing Morning Post: You bought a bookmark from Yahoo. Delicious, is it possible to enter China?

Chen: I'm thinking of working with innovation workshops, and I'm one of the investors there, and I'm having a good time.

"Beijing Morning Post": There is YouTube in front, the pressure of entrepreneurship is very big?

Chen: We hope that in this age of social networking, delicious can intelligently help people find their own information, and as far as we can do it, we're still working on it.

Beijing Morning Post: However, in China to start a business, the competitive environment will be very different, you may encounter a lot of opponents, how do you evaluate this phenomenon, Chinese companies always from the Silicon Valley "reference" ideas?

Chen: I don't think it's fair if someone doesn't look at the pattern. When we started YouTube, there were other video products on the market.