Jawed Karim
American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTube (born 1979) · United States · Founders · also Germany
Jawed Karim is read about 1,879 times a day, in 46 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He uploaded the first video to YouTube - an 18-second clip of himself at the San Diego Zoo that's now been watched over 416 million times - and helped build the site that changed how the world shares moving images.
Also in Deutsch
Photos 2
On YouTube
6.7M subscribersAbout this person
Jawed Karim was born October 28, 1979, a software engineer of Bangladeshi descent who grew up between Germany and America. At PayPal he designed core systems including the real-time anti-fraud architecture, and there he met Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. The three co-founded YouTube, and on April 23, 2005, Karim stood in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo and recorded "Me at the zoo" - 18 seconds that became the site's inaugural upload. While Chen and Hurley steered the company through its explosion and its sale to Google, Karim stepped back from operations early, his legacy sealed by that first awkward clip and the platform's architecture beneath it.
Founders from the United States 6
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.