Jawed Karim

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Jawed Karim (2008)

Jawed Karim (born January 1, 1979 in Merseburg ) is a German-American Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist . Karim is one of the three co-founders of the popular video portal YouTube . Many of the core components of PayPal , including the real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.

Life

Karim's mother, Christine Karim, comes from Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt and is now an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota . His father Naimul Karim comes from Bangladesh and came to the GDR as a student on a scholarship , where he studied chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg . Due to increasing harassment from the authorities, the family left for the west of Neuss in 1982 , where Karim's father worked as a chemist for the technology group 3M and Karim attended the Catholic Norbert grammar school at Knechtsteden monastery in the city of Dormagen .

The xenophobic mood at the time of the xenophobic attacks in Mölln , Rostock and Hoyerswerda in the early 1990s put a strain on the family. After Karim's father received an offer to work at 3M's US headquarters, the family moved to the United States in 1992 . There he attended high school in St. Paul in the US state of Minnesota . After graduating, he began studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , which he interrupted after three years to take a position at the online payment service provider PayPal, based in San José, California . He continued to attend his courses and lectures and was able to complete his computer science studies with a bachelor's degree in 2004 .

He met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen while at PayPal . The three work colleagues later founded the video platform YouTube together , where Karim uploaded the first YouTube video Me at the zoo on April 23, 2005 at 8:27 pm . Karim left YouTube during the growth phase, but remained one of the largest shareholders in the company. Karim then studied computer science ( computer science ) at the Stanford University with the goal of becoming self Professor later.

YouTube was bought by Google in 2006 . In return, Karim received Google shares worth $ 64 million at the time.

In 2008 Karim founded “Y Ventures”, a company that financially supports students and helps them set up their own startup . The company was one of the early investors in Airbnb .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Zöller: "YouTube" star from Knechtsteden. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung, June 2, 2018, p. C3. Online version.Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Lars Winckler: Why the YouTube founder left Germany. In: The world . October 19, 2006.
  3. ↑ First YouTube video: "Me at the zoo"
  4. ↑ Johannes Boie: Youtube turns ten - mass and power. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 14, 2015, accessed May 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Techinfoknow: Me at the zoo. (No longer available online.) Techinfoknow.com, April 23, 2015, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Google's statement to the SEC regarding the YouTube deal dated February 7, 2007
  7. ^ An immigration society - Germans in Silicon Valley - FOCUS Online from July 18, 2008
  8. ^ With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again. In: New York Times . October 12, 2006
  9. ^ YouTube's Payoff: Hundreds of Millions for the Founders . New York Times, February 7, 2007
  10. ↑ http://www.yventures.com/
  11. ↑ How much money did Airbnb raise? What is the company's financing history? . quora.com , March 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Karim, Jawed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American internet entrepreneur and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st January 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg , GDR