Who is Javed Karim — Life Insider Blogger

Rishiraj lodhi
2 min readDec 30, 2020

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Javed Karim is an American internet entrepreneur, Businessman, investor and philanthropist. Javed Karim was a person who co-founded YouTube with friends Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in 14 February 2005. Javed Karim was a first person who uploaded first video on YouTube. Those three, founded YouTube in San mateo California United States of America. The first video named ‘’ Me at the zoo ‘’ was published by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim in 23 April 2005.

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Here is the information about YouTube Co-founder Jawed Karim -

Born — 28 October 1979 ( 41 Years )

Place of Birth — Merseburg, East Germany

Parent — Naimul Karim ( Father ), Christine Karim ( Mother )

Education — Stanford University, Central High School, University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign

Nationality — American, German

Jawed Karim was born on 28 October 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany. Jawed Karim was very intelligent from childhood. Jawed Karim was also a very intelligent software engineer. Later time, Jawed Karim came to United States of America for making his bright future.

He met other Paypal employees named Chad Hurley and Steve Chen at PayPal. After sometime, those three persons chad Hurley, Javed Karim and Steve Chen was became a good friend.

According to Jawed Karim, he got an idea of YouTube by the Janet Jackson’s video and the devastating Tsunami in Indian Ocean.

consequently that was a time 14 February 2005 when in San mateo California United States of America, Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen founded YouTube the world’s largest video sharing platform.

But Chad Hurley and Steve Chen sold YouTube for Google Inc in $1.6 billion USD in 16 October 2006.

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