Jawed Karim Biography

Jawed Karim is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and YouTube co-founder. He’s the first person on the web to upload a video. As of December 2019, this inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo, was viewed more than 81 million times.

Karim met Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, fellow YouTube fonder, as he was working at PayPal. He has designed many of the core components, including his real-time Internet-fraud program.

Jawed Karim Early Life

Jawed was born in Merseburg, East Germany. 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.

Jawed Karim Education

Jawed got enrolled at Saint Paul Central High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota and he also earned his high school graduation from there. After that, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science. But before he earned his Bachelor’s degree, he joined PayPal as its early employee. He also continued his coursework and finally earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois in 2004. He also has a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Jawed Karim Career

Jawed spent an internship at Silicon Graphics Inc. in 1998, where he focused on 3D voxel data management for very large volume rendering data sets, including the Visible Human Project data.
He met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen while at PayPal.

In 2002 after eBay bought the payment service, Karim and the other two co-founders decided to come up with a database venture.

In 2005, the three later created the video-sharing platform for YouTube. Karim posted the first-ever video of YouTube, Me at the zoo, on April 23, 2005.

Jawed Karim Age

Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, Germany. His zodiac birth sign is Capricorn. He celebrates his birthday on October 28 every year. He is 40 years old as of 2019. He has American, Bangladeshi and German nationalities. He is an American citizen.

Jawed Karim Family

Parents

Karim was born to a Bangladeshi father Naimul Karim who was a chemist and German mother Christine Karim, who was a professor in Biochemistry.

Siblings

He has a brother named Ilias Karim. 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.

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Jawed Karim Wife

Karim likes to keep his personal life private hence information about his dating life is not available. It is therefore not known whether he is married or has any children. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.

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• Hair Colour: Dark brown

Jawed Karim Net Worth

Jawed Karim has an estimated net worth of $170 million. The program made his fortune mainly from the company that he had helped to found, YouTube. After it was bought over by Google in 2006, Karim got 137,443 shares of Google at the time which translated to $64 million but with the continuous rise of the stocks of the company, his stake is now more than $170 million.

Jawed Karim Youtube

YouTube is the largest video sharing website in the world. It is an American website. YouTube provides a big platform where millions of users can create an account on this site, allowing them to upload videos that anyone can watch videos.  Anyone can share the content on Youtube only through Internet Connection.

Janet Jackson had a wardrobe malfunction that revealed her breasts during a Super Bowl appearance in 2004. While it was something that caught the world’s attention, in 2005 Karim tried without success to get the video of the accident on the internet. It also proved to be very difficult to get other videos like tsunamis and other world events.

This was what kicked in the idea of starting a video sharing website in Karim’s mind then 26, and so he proposed the idea to his two other friends who accepted and immediately started working.

Since the idea was initially his, what Jawed Karim wanted more than anything else at the time was to go to the computer school and so he opted out of the new company’s management as the three agreed that Hurley would become the CEO while the Chief Technology Officer’s office would go to On his side, he would still be a part, although he would have only smaller stakes.

On Saturday, April 23, 2005, at 8:27 pm, Karim posted the first-ever video on YouTube using the username “Jawed.” The video was “Me at the zoo” and it captured him describing elephants. It was shot by his friend, Yakov Lapitsky.

Karim then enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an adviser to YouTube. As a result, he took the least amount of shares in the company as compared to Hurley and Chen. Due to his smaller role in the company, Karim was unknown to the public as the third founder until YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006.

He gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois’ annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth in October 2006. Karim then returned to the University of Illinois in May 2007 as the 136th and youngest Commencement Speaker in the school’s history.

When did Google buy YouTube

On October 9, 2006, they announced that YouTube will sell to Google। Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion US dollars on November 13, 2006.

it was announced that the company would purchase Google for 1.65 billion US dollars, which ended on November 13.

At the time it was Google’s second-biggest achievement. After contracting three contracts with YouTube media companies to avoid copyright-infringement cases,

the agreement was reached between Google and YouTube. YouTube’s co-founder and Google’s 68 employees worked to continue operating independently.

Google’s February 7, 2007 release of profit for YouTube’s investors has been published after selling the SEC through Google Filing. In 2010, Chad Hurley’s profit was $ 325 million and Steve Chen’s profit was $ 326 million.

Jawed Karim’s career after YouTube

After Jawed and his friends sold YouTube. Later, Jawed created Youniversity Ventures (Y Ventures) which is a venture fund. He was one of the first to invest money in Airbnb. He has also invested in Reddit and a number of other companies. Jawed and Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabois manage the venture fund.

Jawed Karim Publications

Karim has published articles on programming in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, including one on loading rendering and animating Quake models.

Jawed Karim Achievements

• The video has already garnered over 54.6 million views in his post-Me At The Zoo while his channel has over 354 K subscribers.
• He is the official informal advisor of YouTube.
• He became the youngest Commencement Speaker in the history of the University of Illinois to give a lecture in May 2007.
  Several of his articles on programming has been published in the United Business Media published US monthly journal, Dr. Dobb’s Journal (DDJ).

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Jawed Karim

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Karim is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube.

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Karim is 40 years old as of 2019. He was born in 1979.

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Karim likes to keep his personal life private hence information about his dating life is not available.

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Jawed Karim has an estimated net worth of $170 million.

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Karim is still alive and in good health.

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Karim is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of YouTube.