Jawed Karim
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Karim in August 2008 | ||||||||||
| Born | October 28, 1979 | |||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (BS) Stanford University (MS) | |||||||||
| Occupation | Software engineer | |||||||||
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| Genre | Educational | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 5.4 million[1] | |||||||||
| Views | 356 million[1] | |||||||||
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Last updated: April 27, 2025 | ||||||||||
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 360 million times as of May 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.
- ^ a b "About jawed". YouTube.
- ^ 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.