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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 23, 2005, has been viewed over 345 million times as of January 2025.
The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube. His high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky recorded it. In the video, Karim is seen standing in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, where he briefly comments on the length of their trunks. Multiple journalists thought the video represented YouTube as ...
Jawed Karim, former PayPal engineer who co-founded YouTube. Founder of YVentures. Founder of YVentures. Dave McClure , former PayPal marketing director who later co-founded 500 Global and became a super angel investor for startup companies.
One of the founders, Jawed Karim, posted an 18-second grainy video of his trip to the San Diego Zoo. YouTube's first-ever video upload turns 15 years old Skip to main content
When YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded that first video of Me at the Zoo in 2005 it was hard to imagine what the video sharing site launched under the slogan "broadcast yourself" might become.
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 ...
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries .
YouTube was founded in 2005 and just one year later, sold for $1.6 billion to tech juggernaut Google, but co-founder Jawed Karim says the idea of YouTube partly came from Janet's Super Bowl moment.