Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim
	Karim in August 2008
Born	October 28, 1979 (age 45); 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");
	YouTube information
Channel	jawed;
Years active	2005–2007; 2010 (videos);
Genre	Educational
Subscribers	5.4 million
Views	356 million
Creator Awards
	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 24, 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.

[YouTubeStatsjawed-1] "About jawed". YouTube.

[n125-2] 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.

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