Despite his lower share in the company, the purchase was still large enough that he received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time. Because of his smaller role in the company, Karim was mostly unknown to the public as the third founder until YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006. As a result, he took a much lower share in the company compared to Hurley and Chen. When the site was introduced in February 2005, Karim agreed not to be an employee and simply be an informal adviser, and that he was focusing on his studies. Īfter co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an adviser to YouTube.
Karim created the first channel on YouTube, "jawed", on ApPDT (ApUTC), and uploaded the website's first video, " Me at the zoo", the same day. Three years later, in 2005, they founded the video-sharing website YouTube. While working at PayPal in 2002, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. In university, Karim served an Internship at Silicon Graphics, Inc., where he worked on 3D voxel data management for very large data sets for volume rendering, including the data for the Visible Human Project. In addition to English, Jawed speaks German and Bengali. He subsequently earned a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. He left campus prior to graduating to become an early employee at PayPal however, he continued his coursework, earning his bachelor's degree in computer science. He graduated from Saint Paul Central High School in 1997, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Experiencing xenophobia there as well, Karim moved with his family to Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1992. He crossed the inner German border with his family in the early 1980s because of xenophobia, growing up in Neuss, West Germany.
His father Naimul Karim ( Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Muslim Bangladeshi who works as a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German scientist of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother.
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