How Old Is Jawed Karim? Jawed Karim Birthday
Jawed Karim was born on January 1, 1979 and is 45 years old now.
Birthday: January 1, 1979
How Old - Age: 45
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Jawed Karim - Biography
Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is a Bangladeshi American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video on it. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
In October 2006, Karim gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. Karim returned again to the University of Illinois in May 2007 as the 136th and youngest Commencement Speaker in the school's history.
Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. He crossed the inner German border with his family in the early 1980s, growing up in Neuss, West Germany. Karim moved with his family to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1992. He graduated from Saint Paul Central High School and later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal, but continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science. He subsequently earned a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
