Jawed Karim

Place of Birth: Merseburg, Bezirk Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, East Germany (now Germany)

Date of Birth: 28 October, 1979

Ethnicity:
*Bangladeshi (father)
*German (mother)

Jawed Karim is a German-American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded online video sharing platform YouTube, with Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. He is the first person to upload a video on it, “Me at the zoo,” on April 23, 2005. He also designed many core components of multinational financial technology company PayPal.

His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher. His mother, Christine, is German, and is a biochemistry scientist. He was raised in Neuss, West Germany, and then moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S., in 1992, with his family.