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Jawed Karim (Bengali pronunciation: [d͡ʒabed korim]; born October 28, 1979) is a Bengali-origin German-American software engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 391 million times as of May 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many
When YouTube launched in 2005, the very first video ever uploaded was a 19-second clip of co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, saying nothing particularly meaningful about elephants having long trunks
In 2005, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim got tired of a frustrating upload and changed how the wo
In 2005, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim Couldn’t Find a Simple Clip to Share Online: That “Let’s
YouTube turns 20: What happened to Jawed Karim, founder and author of the first video? - EL PAÍS English
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