Jawed Karim
Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope
Name: Jawed Karim
Born: 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany
Computer-related contributions
- Bangladeshi German American technologist and co-founder of the video sharing website YouTube.
- Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
- YouTube's first video, Me at the zoo, was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005.
- Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time when YouTube was acquired by Google.