Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi and German descent. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo and uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 218 million times, as of January 8, 2022. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met the fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, he had designed many of the core components including its real-time anti-Internet-fraud system.
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Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (BS) Stanford University (MS) | |||||||||
Occupation | Software engineer | |||||||||
Known for | Co-founder of YouTube Uploader of the first video on YouTube (Me at the zoo) | |||||||||
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Genre | Educational | |||||||||
Subscribers | 2.94 million[1] | |||||||||
Total views | 235 million[1] | |||||||||
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Website | jawed |
Jawed Karim is a German-American internet entrepreneur, technologynologist, and co-founder of YouTube, the popular American video-sharing website that is now owned by Google. Karim worked for PayPal for a long time before co-founding YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. He was also the first individual to upload a video named "Me at the Zoo" to YouTube. As of September 11, 2018, the 19-second video of Karim in the San Diego Zoo had received over 54.6 million views. Karim built several essential components of PayPal, including the company's real-time anti-internet fraud technology. Karim became an informal adviser to YouTube rather than an employee after it was launched, focusing on further education while holding a smaller stake in the firm than the other co-founders. Karim received 137,443 shares of Google stock after the company was acquired by Google. Among his other ventures, he co-founded Youniversity Ventures with Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabois and invested in Airbnb, Inc.
He was born in East Germany, but his family braved the Berlin Wall crossing and made it into West Germany. His mother was a professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. He has a sister named Ilias.
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Many of PayPal's features, such as its real-time anti-fraud system, were created and implemented by him.
He uploaded the first video clip on YouTube, "Me at the zoo," on April 23, 2005.
Jawed Karim's estimated Net Worth, Salary, Income, Cars, Lifestyles & many more details have been updated below. Let's check, How Rich is He in 2021-2022? According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Jawed Karim has an estimated net worth of $300 Million at the age of 43 years old in year 2022. He has earned most of his wealth from his thriving career as a Programmer, Businessperson from Germany. It is possible that He makes money from other undiscovered sources
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● Jawed Karim was born on January 1, 1979 (age 43) in Merseburg, Germany ● He is a celebrity entrepreneur ● His nationalities are American, German● He attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004), Central High School, Stanford University● The parents of Jawed Karim are Christine Karim, Naimul Karim● You can find His website below: http://www.jawed.com/
Reference: Wikipedia, FaceBook, Youtube, Twitter, Spotify, Instagram, Tiktok, IMDb. Last update: 06-21-2022
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