Jawed Karim Quotes


Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube.


Citations

Karim, Jawed. "YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 21 Oct. 2006, Urbana, IL. Guest Lecture.

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Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim
  • Born: October 28, 1979
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Software Engineer

Jawed Karim is an German-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo and uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed 161 million times, as of April 15, 2021. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met the fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, he had designed many of the core components including its real-time anti-Internet-fraud system.