Jawed Karim
Sign in to saveAmerican co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
Person
- Born
- 1979-10-28
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,671x
- Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,429x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,391x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,008x
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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
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 October 1979
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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
Article
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.
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