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Jawed Karim

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Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an 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 24, 2005, has been viewed over 360 million times as of May 2025. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, he designed many of its core components, including its real-time anti-fraud system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jawed Karim is the 310th most popular businessperson (up from 433rd in 2019), the 2,767th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,039th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jawed Karim ranks 310 out of 847. Before him are George Williams, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Larry Silverstein, Robert Nobel, Sergio Marchionne, and Tadashi Yanai. After him are Arnon Milchan, Ivar Kreuger, Reggie Fils-Aimé, Maryana Iskander, Eric Schmidt, and Hans Riegel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Jawed Karim ranks 35. Before him are Brandy Norwood, Miklós Fehér, Vidya Balan, Simão Sabrosa, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Love Hewitt. After him are Noomi Rapace, Pablo Aimar, Adrian Mutu, Evangeline Lilly, Rafael Márquez, and Aaron Paul.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jawed Karim ranks 2,768 out of 7,253. Before him are Marcel Ophüls (1927), Lothar Emmerich (1941), Johanna Budwig (1908), Matthias Claudius (1740), Otto Baum (1911), and Johann Christian Reil (1759). After him are Axel Rudi Pell (1960), Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg (1602), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Peter Schreier (1935), and Jörg Immendorff (1945).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Jawed Karim ranks 33. Before him are Karl Baedeker (1801), Hans Wilsdorf (1881), Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854), Herbert Hainer (1954), Friedrich Krupp (1787), and Dietmar Hopp (1940). After him are Hans Riegel (1923), Martin Winterkorn (1947), Friedrich Bayer (1825), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), and Siegfried Bing (1838).

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