Jawed Karim

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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim in 2008
Born (1979-01-01) January 1, 1979
Merseburg, East Germany
Ethnicity Bangladeshi German
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stanford University
Known for Co-founder of YouTube
Net worth $139,521,138 [1]
Website
www.jawed.com

Jawed Karim(Bengali;জাভেদ করিম) (born January 1, 1979) is an Bangladeshi-German internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.

Early life

Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany, but crossed the Berlin Wall in 1980 and grew up in Neuss, West Germany. He moved to the United States with his family in 1992, two years after German reunification. He graduated from Central High School in Minnesota and later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his Bachelor of Science in computer science.

Career

While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.[2] YouTube's first video, Me at the zoo, was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005.[3]

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 advisor to YouTube. When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time.[4]

In March 2008, Karim has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to develop and launch their business ideas.[5]

Family

Karim's father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi American researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a German scientist and research associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.[6][7]

Response to YouTube's use of Google+

More than eight years after uploading the first video on YouTube, in response to YouTube's change to using Google+ for its comment system, Karim returned to his original YouTube account on November 7, 2013, asking, "why the f*** do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?", expressing his frustration at YouTube's mandatory integration with Google+.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/technology/07cnd-google.html?ex=1328504400&en=96fcc0326d0a7ef6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  2. ↑ Video websites pop up, invite postings, USA Today, November 21, 2005
  3. ↑ Me at the zoo, YouTube's first video
  4. ↑ New York Times: YouTube’s Payoff: Hundreds of Millionders, The New York Times, February 7, 2007.
  5. ↑ "YouTube Co-Founder Starts Venture Capital Firm". Mashable. 20 March 2008. 
  6. ↑ With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again, The New York Times, October 12, 2006.
  7. ↑ Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder, USA Today, October 11, 2006.
  8. ↑ Cheredar, Tom. "YouTube cofounder’s first public comment in 8 years: ‘[https://www.youtube.com/user/jawed why the f*** do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?]’". VentureBeat. Retrieved 11 November 2013. 
  9. ↑ He also changed his profile picture to a graphic with the text 'google+ sucks', and changed the first video on YouTube's description to something against Google+. Gallagher, Sean. "YouTube cofounder breaks 8-year absence on site to gripe about comment policy". Ars Technica. Retrieved 11 November 2013. 

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