Name: Jawed Karim

Born: 1979 in Merseburg, East Germany

  • Bangladeshi German American technologist and co-founder of the video sharing website YouTube.
  • Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
  • YouTube’s first video, Me at the zoo, was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005.
  • Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google’s closing stock price at the time when YouTube was acquired by Google.
  • Chad Hurley
  • Steve Chen