Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim
Karim in August 2008
Born (1979-10-28) October 28, 1979 (age 45)
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (BS)
Stanford University (MS)
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known for
YouTube information
Channel
Years active
  • 2005–2007
  • 2010 (videos)
GenreEducational
Subscribers5.26 million[1]
Total views351 million[1]
100,000 subscribers2015
1,000,000 subscribers2020

Last updated: March 29, 2024
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Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. 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 351 million times as of March 2025.[2] 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.

  1. ^ a b "About jawed". YouTube.
  2. ^ Alam, Zoheb (April 28, 2024). "YouTube's first-ever video was published 19 years ago and it was filmed at a zoo". GOOD Magazine. Retrieved September 19, 2024.

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