Jawed
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jawed
Style
Vlogs
Date joined
April 23, 2005
Videos
1 (at least 121 deleted)
Schedule
Unscheduled
Status
Inactive
Associates
Chad Hurley • Steve • COM-TEST
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Personal information
Full name
Jawed Karim
Nationality
German-American
Residence
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Channel trailer
Me at the zoo
Most viewed video
Me at the zoo
First video
Me at the zoo
[Source]
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All right, so here we are in front of the, uh, elephants, and the cool thing about these guys is that, is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks, and that’s, that’s cool, and that’s pretty much all there is to say
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―Jawed in Me at the zoo (2005)
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why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?
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―Jawed in 2013
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When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube 🤦♂️
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―Jawed in 2021
Jawed Karim (born: October 28, 1979 (1979-10-28) [age 42]) is a German-born American technologist and co-founder of YouTube of Bangladeshi-German descent. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were designed and implemented by Karim.
He is also known to have uploaded the first video on YouTube, Me at the zoo, was the first most viewed video on YouTube in theory. He also created the first channel on YouTube.
Personal life & Career
Karim was born in East Germany to a Bangladeshi father and German mother, but he crossed the Berlin Wall and grew up in West Germany. He moved to the United States with his family in 1992, two years after German reunification. He graduated from Central High School in Minnesota and he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his Bachelor of Science in computer science in 2004.
While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005. YouTube’s first video, Me at the zoo, was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005.
After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube. When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google’s closing stock price at the time.
In October 2006, Karim gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois’ annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. The lecture material also contained pictures and videos of Jawed, Chad and Steve from the garage days of YouTube. Karim returned again to the University of Illinois in May 2007 as the speaker at the university’s 136th commencement.
More recently, Karim has launched a venture fund called University Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to develop and launch their business ideas.
Jawed also showed disdain for YouTube’s newest update where the dislike count was removed. He updated his description of “Me at the zoo” twice, the second update explaining in great detail his thoughts. He also commented on PewDiePie and Marques Brownlee’s videos on their thoughts, saying “Removing dislikes is the dumbest idea since 2006.” On the Update to YouTube’s dislike count, he commented, “Matt doesn’t look excited because he knows it’s the wrong decision.”
Trivia
- Jawed uploaded two videos on April 23, 2005; “Me at the zoo” and another video titled “Rolling down a hill”, which he later took down.[1][2]
- Jawed once had 68 videos uploaded by August 2005,[3] 121 videos uploaded by December 2005,[4] 45 videos uploaded by February 2008,[5] and only one video upload by July 2012,[6] many of which he took down for unknown reasons.
- Jawed has commented on a few videos, which he took some down for unexplained reasons. He once commented on larfus’ “Baby Fart” video saying, “rofl!!!!!!!!!!” in June 2005.[7] He also once commented on mw’s “My Snowboarding Skillz” video saying, “Ouch!” sometime in 2005,[8][9][10][11] which mw responded to Jawed’s comment.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18] He commented “you just saved me many hours of frustration. i used a shoe sole, and it worked perfectly!” on a video entitled “How to remove a lens filter that’s stuck” in 2011.[19]
- Jawed used to be the slowest channel to reach 1 million subscribers, but was overtaken by the Swedish band A-ha.
- He is of Bangladeshi-German descent.
- He may have been interested in aviation, since he recorded airplanes taking off on many of his deleted videos.
- As seen from Timeworks, Jawed may possibly still be active on YouTube, only he’s not uploading anymore. but he’s commenting on some certain YouTube videos though it’s kind of uncertain if it’s really Jawed himself or was hacked. [20]
Channel milestones
Note: The following dates are according to . Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: July 16, 2020
- 2 million subscribers: July 29, 2021
Video view milestones
- 50 million views: May 20, 2018
- 100 million views: June 23, 2020
- 150 million views: January 31, 2021
- 200 million views: November 5, 2021
Gallery
Jawed Karim, along with fellow YouTube creators, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen.
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