Jawed Karim (Bengali: ????? ????; born October 28, 1979) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi-German descent.
He is the co-founder of YouTube, and the first person to upload a video to the site.
This inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 80 million times as of December 2019.
During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met the fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, he had designed many of the core components including its real-time anti-internet-fraud system.