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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1979-10-28 ) October 28, 1979 (age 46) , Merseburg , Bezirk Halle , East Germany , (now Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt , Germany )
- Alma mater
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign ( BS ), Stanford University ( MS )
- Occupation
- Software engineer
- Known for
- Co-founding YouTube uploading the first video on YouTube (" Me at the zoo ")
- Channel
- jawed
- Years active
- 2005–2007 2010 (videos)
- Genre
- Educational
- Subscribers
- 6.14 million
- Views
- 392 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- PayPal Mafia
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Merseburg
- Occupation
- software engineer
- Employer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Notable work
- YouTube
- Image
- Jawed Karim 2008.jpg
- Residence
- Palo Alto
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- Commons category
- Jawed Karim
- social media followers
- 5710000
- date of birth
- 1979-10-28
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- number of viewers/listeners
- 373858455
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Encyclopedic overview
Jawed Karim ( Bengali pronunciation: [d͡ʒabed korim]; born October 28, 1979) is a German and 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 392 million times as of May 2026. 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.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jawed Karim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.