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Jawed Karim
Karim in August 2008
Born(1979-10-28)October 28, 1979(age 44)
Merseburg,Bezirk Halle,East Germany
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana–Champaign(BS)
Stanford University(MS)
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known for
YouTube information
Channel
Years active
  • 2005–2007
  • 2010 (videos)
GenreEducational
Subscribers4.37 million[1]
Total views303 million[1]
100,000 subscribers2015
1,000,000 subscribers2020
Last updated:October 8, 2023
Websitewww.jawed.comEdit this at Wikidata

Jawed Karim(born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer andInternet entrepreneur.He is a co-founder ofYouTubeand 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 327 million times as of July 9, 2024.[2][3]During Karim's time working atPayPal,where he met fellow YouTube co-foundersSteve ChenandChad Hurley,he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system.

Early life and education

Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, inMerseburg,East Germany,to aBangladeshifather and a German mother.[4]His father Naimul Karim (Bengali:নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at3M,and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at theUniversity of Minnesota.[5]He was the elder of two boys.[6]He crossed theinner German borderwith his family in the early 1980s because ofxenophobia,[7]growing up inNeuss,West Germany.[note 1]Experiencing xenophobia there as well,[7]Karim moved with his family toSaint Paul, Minnesota,in 1992.[8]

He graduated fromSaint Paul Central High Schoolin 1997,[9][10]and attended theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[9]He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee atPayPal.He continued his coursework,[8]earning his bachelor's degree incomputer science.[11]He subsequently earned a master's degree in computer science fromStanford University.[12]In addition to English, he speaks German and Bengali.[13]

Career

"Me at the zoo",the first video on YouTube, was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005.
Karim in September 2004

In university, Karim served an Internship atSilicon Graphics,Inc., where he worked on 3D voxel data management for very large data sets forvolume rendering,including the data for theVisible Human Project.[14]While working at PayPal in 2002, he metChad HurleyandSteve Chen.Three years later, in 2005, they founded the video-sharing website YouTube.[15]Karim created the first channel on YouTube, "jawed", on April 23, 2005PDT(April 24, 2005UTC),[16]and uploaded the website's first video, "Me at the zoo",the same day.[2][3]

After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website withChad HurleyandSteve Chen,Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an adviser to YouTube. When the site was introduced in February 2005, Karim agreed not to be an employee and simply be an informal adviser, and that he was focusing on his studies.[8]As a result, he took a much lower share in the company compared to Hurley and Chen.[17]

Because of his smaller role in the company, Karim was mostly unknown to the public as the third founder untilYouTubewas acquired by Google in 2006. Despite his lower share in the company, the purchase was still large enough that he received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time.[18]

In October 2006, Karim gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at theUniversity of Illinoisannual ACM Conference entitledYouTube From Concept to Hyper growth.Karim returned again to theUniversity of Illinoisin May 2008 as the 136th and youngest commencement speaker in the school's history.[19][20]

Investments

In March 2008, Karim launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures (now known as YVentures) with partnersKeith RaboisandKevin Hartz.[21]Karim is one ofAirbnb's first investors, investing in the company's initialseed roundin April 2009.[22]Y Ventures has also invested inPalantir,RedditandEventbrite.[23]

Responses to YouTube

Occasionally, Karim has updated the video description of "Me at the zoo"to criticize decisions made by YouTube.

On November 6, 2013, YouTube began requiring that commenting on its videos be done via aGoogle+account, a move that was widely opposed by the YouTube community. An online petition to revert the change garnered over 240,000 signatures.[24]

In response to Google requiring YouTube members to use Google+ for its comment system, Karim wrote on his YouTube account, "why the fuck do i need a Google+ account to comment on a video?", and updated the video description on his first video titled "Me at the zoo" to "I can't comment here anymore, since i don't want a Google+ account".[25]

In response to pressure from the YouTube community,Googlepublicly apologized for forcing Google+ users to use their real names, which was one of the reasons the Google+ integration was unpopular with YouTube users.[26]Google subsequently dropped its Google+ requirement across all products, beginning with YouTube.[27]Google announced in October 2018 its intention to permanently shut down Google+, as it had failed to achieve broad consumer or developer adoption,[28][29]and because of a vulnerability.[30][31]Google+ was closed for personal accounts on April 2, 2019.[32]

In November 2021, Jawed updated the "Me at the zoo" video description to include "When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube🤦‍♂️."[33]A few days later, Karim updated the description again to a more detailed condemnation of YouTube's decision.[34]

See also

Notes

  1. ^Sources vary regarding the year that the family moved from East Germany to West Germany.The New York Timessays 1980.[8]Star Weekend Magazinesays at the end of summer 1981.[9]Die Weltsays 1982.[7]

References

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  2. ^abAsmelash, Leah (April 23, 2020)."The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago today. Here it is".CNN.Archived fromthe originalon April 23, 2020.RetrievedMarch 16,2023.
  3. ^abKarim, Jawed (April 23, 2005)."Me at the zoo".YouTube.Archivedfrom the original on December 19, 2021.RetrievedSeptember 1,2021.
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  7. ^abcKeese, Christoph (October 22, 2006)."Sergey Brin und Jawed Karim – zwei Karierren".Die Welt(in German).Archivedfrom the original on February 16, 2019.RetrievedAugust 20,2017.Der andere heißt Jawed Karim und wurde 1979 in Merseburg/DDR geboren. Sein Vater kam aus Bangladesch, seine Mutter aus dem Harz. Die Karims waren als Ausländer verpönt und wanderten deswegen 1982 in den Westen aus. In Neuss schlug ihnen wieder Fremdenhass entgegen; deshalb zogen sie in die USA
  8. ^abcdHelft, Miguel (October 12, 2006)."With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on August 15, 2023.RetrievedFebruary 22,2017.
  9. ^abcRahman, Muhit (December 8, 2006)."The Greatest Possibilities: The Jawed Karim Story".Star Weekend Magazine.Archived fromthe originalon April 29, 2023.RetrievedAugust 20,2017.
  10. ^Christensen, Tesha M. (September 5, 2016)."Year-long events mark Central High School 150th anniversary".Monitor St. Paul.Archivedfrom the original on August 20, 2017.RetrievedAugust 20,2017.
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  17. ^"Jawed Who? Meet YouTube's silent partner".Silicon Valley Watcher.Archivedfrom the original on April 2, 2016.RetrievedJune 19,2016.
  18. ^Helft, Miguel (February 7, 2007)."YouTube's Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on March 27, 2019.RetrievedFebruary 22,2017.
  19. ^Welcome to Engineering at IllinoisArchivedMay 13, 2008, at theWayback Machine,University of Illinois
  20. ^136th Commencement AddressArchivedApril 11, 2009, at theWayback Machine,University of Illinois, May 13, 2007.
  21. ^"YouTube Co-Founder Starts Venture Capital Firm".Mashable.March 20, 2008.Archivedfrom the original on August 26, 2019.RetrievedMay 2,2013.
  22. ^Gallagher, Leigh (February 14, 2017). "The Hustle".The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions. and Created Plenty of Controversy.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 31.ISBN978-0-544-95387-1.Archivedfrom the original on June 29, 2024.RetrievedNovember 8,2017.
  23. ^"Y Ventures | Companies".www.yventures.com.Archived fromthe originalon May 11, 2021.RetrievedJuly 19,2020.
  24. ^"YouTube faces backlash for Google+ integration".CNN.Archivedfrom the original on July 23, 2019.RetrievedSeptember 10,2014.
  25. ^Cheredar, Tom (November 8, 2013)."YouTube cofounder's first public comment in 8 years: why the f*** [sic] do i need a Google+ account to comment on a video?".VentureBeat.Archivedfrom the original on September 9, 2017.RetrievedNovember 11,2013.
  26. ^"Google Plus Finally Gives Up on Its Ineffective, Dangerous Real-Name Policy".Slate.Archivedfrom the original on September 20, 2014.RetrievedSeptember 13,2014.
  27. ^"Google is dropping its Google+ requirement across all products, starting with YouTube".VentureBeat.July 27, 2015.Archivedfrom the original on August 11, 2015.RetrievedAugust 8,2015.
  28. ^"Google+ to shut down".CNN.Archivedfrom the original on October 18, 2018.RetrievedOctober 8,2018.
  29. ^"Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+".October 8, 2018.Archivedfrom the original on October 8, 2018.RetrievedOctober 8,2018.
  30. ^"Google+ is Shutting Down After a Vulnerability Exposed 500,000 Users' Data".thehackernews.com.Archivedfrom the original on June 21, 2020.RetrievedJune 15,2020.
  31. ^"A New Google+ Blunder Exposed Data From 52.5 Million Users".Wired.Archivedfrom the original on August 3, 2020.RetrievedJune 15,2020.
  32. ^Welch, Chris (April 2, 2019)."Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network".The Verge.Archivedfrom the original on February 13, 2021.RetrievedFebruary 12,2021.
  33. ^Li, Abner (November 14, 2021)."'Me at the zoo,' YouTube's first video, gets new description protesting dislike count removal ".9to5Google.Archivedfrom the original on November 22, 2021.RetrievedNovember 16,2021.
  34. ^Vincent, James (November 17, 2021)."YouTube co-founder predicts 'decline' of the platform following removal of dislikes".The Verge.Archivedfrom the original on November 17, 2021.RetrievedNovember 18,2021.

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