Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim ( born January 1, 1979 in Merseburg ) is one of three co-founders of the popular video site YouTube.

Biography

Karim's mother, Christine Karim, is originally from Stuttgart in Baden- Württemberg and is now Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. His father Naimul Karim comes from Bangladesh and came as a student with a scholarship to East Germany, where he studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule Merseburg. Due to increasing harassment by the authorities in 1982, the family traveled to the West, where Karim's father worked as a chemist at the technology company 3M in Neuss (North Rhine -Westphalia) and Karim attended the Catholic school in Knechtsteden monastery near Dormagen.

In 1992, Karim's father moved with the family to 3M 's headquarters in the United States, and Karim attended high school in St. Paul, Minnesota. After graduating, he began studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, which he broke after three years to participate in the assets of San Francisco online payment system PayPal. However, in addition to that, he left the study obligations under his eyes and could therefore conclude 2004, his computer science degree with a bachelor's degree.

During his tenure at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen know. The three colleagues later founded together the video website YouTube, where Karim on April 23, 2005 hochlud the first video. Karim left YouTube during the growth phase, but remained one of the largest shareholders in the company. Then Karim studied computer science (computer science) from Stanford University with the aim of later becoming a professor. Currently, he also received his doctorate there in computer science (computer science).

YouTube was sold in 2006 for € 1.31 billion to Google. For his part, he got 137 443 Google shares (approximate value: 105 million euros, as of November 2013)