Jawed Karim Founder of YouTube
Jawed Karim Founder of YouTube

Biography of Jawed Karim

Early Life

Jawed Karim founder of YouTube is a Bangladeshi German. He was born in Meserburg, East Germany in the year of 1979 on January 1. His parents crossed the Berlin wall in 1980 and migrated to Nesses, West Germany. When Germany reunified in 1990, his family migrated to United States of America after two years of unification. He was admitted in the Central High School of Minnesota for his early education. He was an intellectual student form very young age who was very much interested in studies of every subject. He used to study the books of local library and finished every book in the age of just 14 years.

Interest in Computer Science

After his early education, he was enrolled in University of Illinois to study the computer science. He was working as a computer entrepreneur and a website developer along with his studies and in a result he got an offer of Job from PayPal. He joined the company as it was fitting best of his needs was convenient for him. Along with his job, he was studying and he completed his Bachelor in Computer science degree from the above mentioned university.

Co Founder of YouTube

Jawed Karim is widely credited as the co founder of YouTube with two other friends. When he was working in PayPal, he met two persons named as Chad Harley and Steve Chan and they became good friends as their interest was same of internet. All of them were the internet giants within themselves. They thought to launch a video sharing website which resulted in launching of YouTube in the year of 2005. In the same year, they officially inaugurated the website by uploading first video on the website with a title of me at the zoo. This video was shared by Jawed Karim on April 23.

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website founded by Jawed Karim, Chad Harley and Steve Chan in the year of 2005. After its official inauguration, this website became the best website of the world in the category of video sharing. The website is still considered as the 3rd largest visitors holding website of the world after Google and Facebook. The fame of YouTube resulted in revenue for its founders and they started to increase the standard of their website. Currently it is the best video sharing website with the most simple user interface.

Present Situation

Jawed Karim is currently residing in Untied States of America and is almost 34 years of age. He received his first revenue of 64 million United States Dollars from the website rating through Google stock rates. Presently he is one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of 13.9 billion dollars.