Jawed Karim

جاود كريم

Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi descent, a co-founder of YouTube in 2005 and the first person to upload a video to it ('Me at the zoo'). Born in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother, he worked at PayPal before YouTube, where he designed core components including its real-time anti-fraud system.

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    YouTube

    Karim worked at PayPal, where he designed core components including its real-time anti-fraud system, and there met his later co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. In 2005 he co-founded YouTube, and on 23 April 2005 he uploaded the platform's first video, "Me at the zoo", which has since been viewed hundreds of millions of times. He studied computer science at the University of Illinois and took a master's degree at Stanford. 1 2

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    His faith is recorded as unknown, in the absence configuration: no article text in the English, Arabic or Urdu edition names any religion or affiliation for him, no infobox carries a religion field, and his Wikidata item carries no religion claim at all. His father's Bangladeshi origin and his family name are family background, never attestations, so no value is recorded. 1 3 2 4

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    Sources

    1. Jawed Karim — English Wikipedia
    2. Jawed Karim — Urdu Wikipedia
    3. Jawed Karim — Arabic Wikipedia
    4. Jawed Karim — Wikidata Q76694
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    islam.museum contributors. “Jawed Karim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jawed-karim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.

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