Jawed Karim is an American software engineer, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist of German and Bangladeshi descent who is best remembered today for being one of the three co-founders of YouTube.
Jawed Karim uploaded the very first video to YouTube on April 23, 2005. It is called “Me at the zoo,” and Karim uploaded it through his channel called jawed.
There is conflicting information about the corresponding net worths of the three original founders of YouTube. Various reports about Jawed Karim’s net worth place it at anywhere from $140 million to $300 million.
– created PayPal’s real-time anti-internet-fraud detection system– co-founded YouTube with the help of Steve Chen and Chad Hurley– uploaded the first-ever video to YouTube: “Me at the zoo”