computer scientist
Jawed Karim.
American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
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About Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 416 million times as of September 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system.
Everything about Jawed Karim →- Occupation
- computer scientist, entrepreneur, YouTuber, television producer
- Citizenship
- United States, Germany
- Born
- October 28, 1979
- Website
- https://jawed.com