Jawed Karim

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jawed Karim
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1979(1979-10-28)
Age	45
Birthplace	Merseburg
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jawed Karim Biography

Jawed Karim is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on October 28, 1979 in Merseburg, Germany. Co-founder of YouTube who became the first ever person to upload a video via the popular video-sharing platform.

His site allowed aspiring entertainers like Kevin Wu to find a platform to show their talents to the world.

Jawed Karim (Bengali: জাভেদ করিম ; born 28 October 1979) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi-German descent. He is the co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo uploaded on 23 April 2005, has been viewed about 96,567,542 times as of May 2020. 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.

After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an adviser to YouTube. When the site was introduced in February 2005, Karim agreed not to be an employee and simply be an informal adviser, and that he was focusing on his studies. As a result, he took a much lower share in the company compared to Hurley and Chen. Because of his smaller role in the company, Karim was mostly unknown to the public as the third founder until YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006. Despite his lower share in the company, the purchase was still large enough that he received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google’s closing stock price at the time.

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.

Jawed Karim Net Worth

Jawed Karim is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jawed Karim 's net worth $140 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He designed and implemented many of PayPal’s features, like their real-time anti-fraud system.

He uploaded the first video clip on YouTube, “Me at the zoo,” on April 23, 2005.

Karim was born on 28 October 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany, to a German mother and Bangladeshi father. He was the elder of two boys. He crossed the inner German border with his family in the early 1980s because of xenophobia, growing up in Neuss, West Germany. Experiencing xenophobia there as well, Karim moved with his family to Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1992. He graduated from Saint Paul Central High School and later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor’s degree in computer science. He subsequently earned a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.

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Who is Jawed Karim Dating?

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In response to pressure from the YouTube community, Google publicly apologized for forcing Google+ users to use their real names, which was one of the reasons the Google+ integration was unpopular with YouTube users. Google subsequently dropped its Google+ requirement across all products, beginning with YouTube. Google announced in October 2018 its intention to permanently shut down Google+ as it had failed to achieve broad consumer or developer adoption. Google+ was closed for personal accounts on 2 April 2019.

Facts & Trivia

Jawed Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Jawed Karim celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.

How much did Jawed Karim sold YouTube for?

Jawed Karim – Youtube Google Acquisition Much of the time, he remained unrecognized by the general public until Google’s arrival. It was only when Youtube was sold to Google for nearly $1.65 billion in the year 2006 that Karim was again back in the news and media.

Is jawed still owner of YouTube?

Jawed Karim
Last updated: 22 Aug 2022
Website| jawed.com

Who is the real owner of YouTube?

YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is currently owned by Google , and is the second most visited website, after Google Search.

Did Jawed Karim drop out?

Jawed dropped out of university before completing his degree and went to work for PayPal, where he was one of the company’s first employees. In 2004, he completed his education and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Who has the most subscribers on YouTube?

The Indian music video channel T-Series is the most-subscribed YouTube channel, with 225 million subscribers as of September 2022.