Jawed Karim founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen in 2005, February 14th. Jawed is now an American software engineer and a successful entrepreneur. He contributed a lot of his work to YouTube and helped it grow tremendously. He helped upload the first ever video which came to over $28.80 billion dollars in 2021. He is also part bnagladeshi and German. Jawed Karim was the one who posted and was in the first ever video on YouTube which was called ' Me at the zoo' and has been watched 229 million times.

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Jawed Karim is 42 years old and was born on the 28th of October, 1979 in Merserburg, East Germany. He has a net worth of $300 million. He has one sibling called Illias Karim. Jawed went to the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (BS), Stanford University. He is now an entrepreneur but known for being the Co-founder of YouTube and first person to upload a video. His YouTube channel is called 'Jawed'.

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Jawed dropped out of college, he was working with the Internship at Silicon Graphics, Inc. When he dropped out of college he worked with PayPal.

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Jawed has founded 'Youniversity Ventures' in March 2008. This company provides mentorship, expertise and contacts. It's to help and work with students and first time entrepreneurs. It's a partnership with Keith Rabois and Kevin Hartz. He then also invested in other companies.