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Yu Pan
Born
China[1][2]
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BS)
OccupationsEngineer, Entrepreneur
Known forCo-founder of PayPal[3] and the very first employee of YouTube

Yu Pan is a Chinese-born American software engineer and entrepreneur. He was a co-founder and founding engineer at Confinity, which later merged to become PayPal, where he helped build the company's early payments and auction infrastructure. Pan later joined YouTube as its first employee and worked on the site's early video player and distribution technologies. He has also worked at Google and Affirm, served as chief technology officer of 8i, co-founded KiwiCrate, and later joined Origin Protocol as a research and development engineer.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

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Pan was born in China and later studied computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he received a bachelor's degree.[7]

At Illinois, Pan became connected to a group of computer science students and alumni who later became involved in the early development of PayPal. Max Levchin, who received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Illinois in 1997, had previously founded early internet ventures while at the university, including SponsorNet New Media with fellow Illinois students Luke Nosek and Scott Banister.[8] According to Jimmy Soni's book The Founders, Levchin later recruited Pan and fellow Illinois alumnus Russel Simmons to join Confinity, the company that developed the PayPal payments product.[9]

Soni recounts that Pan was considering a position at IBM before joining Confinity, and that Levchin traveled to Illinois to persuade Pan and reassure Pan's parents about the risks of joining an early-stage startup.[9] Simmons also left graduate school at Illinois in late 1998 to join PayPal, where he became a software architect and helped design the company's web-based payment system.[10]

Career

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Earlier in his career, Pan was one of the co-founders of PayPal. According to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, he designed and implemented PayPal's first flagship product and developed web technologies that supported PayPal's auction-payments business on eBay.[11]

Pan later joined YouTube as its first employee. At YouTube, he built the company's first video player and worked on technologies that helped the site grow through distribution on outside social platforms. He joined Google after its acquisition of YouTube.[11][12]

After leaving Google, Pan co-founded KiwiCrate, an educational subscription kit company for children.[11][13] He later worked at Affirm, where he developed integrations with e-commerce platforms, and served as chief technology officer of 8i, a company focused on photorealistic human holograms for virtual reality, augmented reality, and the web.[11]

In 2018, Pan joined Origin Protocol as a research and development engineer. CoinDesk reported that his role was to lead the company's research team as it developed decentralized marketplace technology.[13]

Pan currently works as an R&D Engineer at Origin Protocol.[14]

Awards

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In 2007, Pan gained an Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Alumni Award, and he is listed as a notable alumnus alongside technology entrepreneurs Steve Chen, Ramez Naam, Russel Simmons, and Sam Yagan.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Peter, Thiel. "Girard in Silicon Valley: Notes from a lecture by Peter Thiel". Imitatio, a program of Thiel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2012-07-30.
  2. ^ Peter Thiel, The paradox of founders: outsiders who become insiders, Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 01:30, accessed 7/09/2010
  3. ^ IMSA Award site Archived 2015-07-10 at the Wayback Machine - IMSA Award site lists Yu Pan as a cofounder of PayPal
  4. ^ "Yu Pan". Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  5. ^ Canales, Katie (29 May 2020). "YouTube's First 10 Employees and Its Founders: Where Are They Now?". Business Insider. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  6. ^ Milano, Annaliese (1 May 2018). "Another PayPal Co-Founder Is Embracing Blockchain's 'Seismic Shift'". CoinDesk. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  7. ^ "Yu Pan". Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  8. ^ "Max Levchin: The Making of a Tech Mogul". Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  9. ^ a b Soni, Jimmy (2022). The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501197260.
  10. ^ "Russ Simmons". Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 24 May 2026.
  11. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference siebel2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference businessinsider2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference coindesk2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Ankney, Leslie. "Why These Innovators Left Facebook, Google And More For Crypto". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
  15. ^ "IMSA Board of Trustees Alumni Awards". Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. IMSA. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
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