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Jawed Karim
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Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.[1] [2]
Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science in 2004.
While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.[4] 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.[5] When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim's 137,443 shares of stock were valued at $64.6 million, while his cofounders each earned around $326 million. [6]
In October 2006, Jawed gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. In his lecture he mentioned Wikipedia as being an innovative social experiment and added that he created the Air Force One article in 2002.
More recently, Jawed has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to launch their business ideas.
Jawed uploaded YouTube's first video when he launched the website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen on April 23rd 2005.[7]
- ^ With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again, The New York Times, October 12, 2006.
- ^ Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder, October 11, 2006.
- ^ YouTube: OurGuys. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science (2006-09-20).
- ^ Graham, Jefferson (2005-11-21). Video websites pop up, invite postings. USA Today.
- ^ YouTube Founders. YouTube.com.
- ^ Google SEC Filing 2/7/2007/
- ^ jawed.com
- Jawed Karim's Personal Website
- With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again - New York Times (Oct 12, 2006)
- Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder - USA TODAY (Oct 12, 2006)
- Whiz Kid: Jawed Karim, a graduate of St. Paul Central - Star Tribune (Oct 13, 2006)
- He went off to college to make his fortune - The News-Gazette (Oct 16, 2006)
- YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth
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