14 Facts About Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim was born on October 28,1979 and is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi and German descent.

Jawed Karim is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site.

Jawed Karim was born on October 28,1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother.

Jawed Karim's father Naimul Karim is a Muslim Bangladeshi who works as a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German scientist of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.

Jawed Karim crossed the inner German border with his family in the early 1980s because of xenophobia, growing up in Neuss, West Germany.

Jawed Karim graduated from Saint Paul Central High School in 1997, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jawed Karim left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal; however, he continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science.

Jawed Karim subsequently earned a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

In university, Jawed Karim served an Internship at Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In October 2006, Jawed Karim gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube From Concept to Hyper growth.

Jawed Karim returned again to the University of Illinois in May 2008 as the 136th and youngest commencement speaker in the school's history.

In March 2008, Jawed Karim launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures with partners Keith Rabois and Kevin Hartz.

Jawed Karim is one of Airbnb's first investors, investing in the company's initial seed round in April 2009.

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