Jawed Karim - The Asian Place - Desi Forum

MizzyBone · 13-02-2007, 17:40

Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.
Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.[1] [2]
Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] 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 in 2004.
While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.[4] After co-founding the company, Karim opted out of full-time involvement and acted as an advisor to YouTube. He then enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University.[5] When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim's 137,443 shares of stock were valued at $64.6 million, while his cofounders each earned around $326 million. [6]

In October 2006, Jawed gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. In his lecture he mentioned Wikipedia as being an innovative social experiment and added that he created the Air Force One article in 2002.

Jawed uploaded YouTube's first video when he launched the website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen on April 23rd 2005.[7]

Jawed is also a long-term (if rather occasional) user of Wikipedia.[1] In his 2006 YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth he expressed his original skepticism of Wikipedia, not knowing if people would contribute very much for free. He's since changed his mind, relating an early screen shot of an Air Force One Wikipedia article, which was just a couple paragraphs, in comparison to the current exhaustive article.

Brown Sugar Baby · 13-02-2007, 17:50

interestinggg!!......

SweetesT@boo · 13-02-2007, 19:08

Karim....... What a wicked sir name!!!!!

Brown Sugar Baby · 13-02-2007, 19:10

Originally Posted by SweetesT@boo

Karim....... What a wicked sir name!!!!!

why isit urs?

Iroquois Pliskin · 14-02-2007, 00:35

Nice nice!

Kayz · 15-02-2007, 00:30

a very good find i say!!

SweetesT@boo · 16-02-2007, 16:48

Originally Posted by Brown Sugar Baby

why isit urs?

How'd ya guess!

13-02-2007, 17:40	#1 (permalink)
MizzyBone Respected Member Location: Middle Earth Age: 24 Gender: Male Country: Posts: 9,471 Rep Power: 348 Rep Level:	Jawed Karim Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.[1] [2] Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), and went on to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] 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 in 2004. While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005.[4] After co-founding the company, Karim opted out of full-time involvement and acted as an advisor to YouTube. He then enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University.[5] When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim's 137,443 shares of stock were valued at $64.6 million, while his cofounders each earned around $326 million. [6] In October 2006, Jawed gave a lecture about the history of YouTube at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference entitled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. In his lecture he mentioned Wikipedia as being an innovative social experiment and added that he created the Air Force One article in 2002. Jawed uploaded YouTube's first video when he launched the website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen on April 23rd 2005.[7] Jawed is also a long-term (if rather occasional) user of Wikipedia.[1] In his 2006 YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth he expressed his original skepticism of Wikipedia, not knowing if people would contribute very much for free. He's since changed his mind, relating an early screen shot of an Air Force One Wikipedia article, which was just a couple paragraphs, in comparison to the current exhaustive article. Hard work never killed anyone but why take the risk? Suman says:yeh its e Suman says:lol Suman says:Huge Suman says:luks nice

13-02-2007, 19:08	#3 (permalink)
SweetesT@boo Forum Addict! Location: In a womans world Age: 23 Gender: Female Country: Posts: 1,180 Rep Power: 91 Rep Level:	Karim....... What a wicked sir name!!!!! As I wipe the tears falling down my face I look up to the sky and pray. "Please Allah, help to show me the way. Lead me down the right path, give me the strength to carry on. It's so lonely here by myself with so many things to do. I need you to give me the faith to see me through."

14-02-2007, 00:35	#5 (permalink)
Iroquois Pliskin Respected Member Tournaments Won: 6 Location: UK Glasgow Gender: Male Country: Posts: 12,192 My Mood: Rep Power: 439 Rep Level:	Nice nice! - Looks like someone has got smoke grenades for Xmas -

15-02-2007, 00:30	#6 (permalink)
Kayz Siiigh Tournaments Won: 1 Location: UK London! Age: 48 Gender: Male Country: Posts: 8,090 My Mood: I have 9 Blog Entries Rep Power: 563 Rep Level:	a very good find i say!! Help The Asian Place Today! Show AP Your Support! Your favourite Links on one page how awesome is that? Find Out Here! AP Search Page - Make it Your Homepage Show Us your support! Play the AP GAME TODAY! *I only attend wedding invitations and nothing else! kayz[at]theasianplace[dot]net

13-02-2007, 17:50	#2 (permalink)
Brown Sugar Baby Respected Member Location: edinburgh Gender: Female Country: Posts: 6,212 Rep Power: 213 Rep Level:	interestinggg!!......

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