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Jawed Karim

American co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)

  • Audience6.2M
  • Fame79.5
  • Momentum2.9
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6.2M youtube followers
  • Audience6.2M
  • Fame79.5
  • Momentum2.9
  • Founders rank#10
  • Wikipedia64.9K
Born 1979 · age 47United States
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  • Age
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    Born 1979
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Updated 2026-06-21

Jawed Karim is a German and 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 392 million times as of May 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system.

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79.5
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Momentum2.9
Historical23.7
Now attention15.8
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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