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Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. [9] Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [10]
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. American businessman and co-founder of YouTube (born 1977) Chad Hurley Hurley in 2010 Born Chad Meredith Hurley (1977-01-24) January 24, 1977 (age 47) Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater Indiana University of Pennsylvania (BA) Occupation(s) Webmaster Businessman Known for Co-founder ...
She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, leading the company's online advertising business and original video service. After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023 ...
Greg Jarboe, in his book YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day, describes the video's representation of an ordinary moment to be "extraordinary" for its time, demonstrating YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim's vision of what YouTube would become. According to Jarboe, "Me at the zoo" showed that YouTube was not simply about trying to "capture ...
In 2005, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen founded YouTube, with Chen having the position of chief technology officer. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business. [10] On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. Chen received 625,366 shares of ...
Vlogs (often based on misinterpretations of common figures of speech), covers of popular songs recorded in his car and other vehicles ("AutoTunes"), original music, celebrity interviews, and other humorous content. Bachir Boumaaza: Belgium AtheneWins Video gamer and social activist who is widely referred to by his online pseudonym "Athene ...