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Yu Pan

Yu Pan

A computer engineer and entrepreneur. He has been a founding team member at companies such as PayPal and YouTube.

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Founder of
PayPal
PayPal
Birthplace
China
China
Educated at
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation
Software engineer
Software engineer
Businessperson
Businessperson

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Q19866080

Yu Pan is a San Francisco-based engineer who has also founded several artificial intelligence start-up companies. He has a Bachelors of Science degree in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Career

Pan was a founding engineer at PayPal in 1999. He stayed with the company for more than five years until he became the chief technology officer (CTO) at Adzaar. In 2005, Pan transitioned to working at YouTube as a senior software engineer where he developed embedded video player, which is used on the site. After close to five years at YouTube, he left the company to found his own start-up along with Yael Pasternak Valek and Sandra Oh Lin. The company is called KiwiCo, Incorporated and is a subscription service for activities for kids.

In 2013, Pan left KiwiCo and took another senior software engineer position at Affirm, Incorporated until he moved to 8i in 2015 to act as CTO. Following 8i, Pan worked at MobiSocial as vice president of research. As of 2019, he is a research engineer at Origin Protocol.

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PayPal Co-Founder and First YouTube Engineer Joins Origin: Welcome Yu Pan

Matthew Liu

https://medium.com/originprotocol/welcoming-yu-pan-to-the-origin-team-fcce3e3a2166

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May 1, 2018

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