Javed Karim is an American entrepreneur of German-Bangladeshi descent. Known as one of the three co-founders of the popular YouTube video hosting. In his youth, he developed software for the PayPal online payment system. Today lives in the vicinity of San Francisco, California.
Biography of Javed Karim
The well-known programmer and entrepreneur was born on 10/28/1979 in the small town of Merseburg (GDR) in an international family. His father was Naimul Karim, a student from the South Asian country of Bangladesh. He came to East Germany to study chemistry at the Technical University of Merseburg. Here he met the future wife and mother of Javed Karim - Kristin, a native of the neighboring village of Wernigerode. Unusual for that time, a married couple attracted public attention, neighbors spread rumors. The couple faced xenophobia.
In the end, their patience snapped and in 1982 they moved to live in Germany. At that time, the territory of the GDR was under the control of the Soviet Union, and it was not easy to do this. Rescued that Naimul was a foreign citizen of a friendly country.
Being a good chemist, my father got a job in a 3M technology company owned by the Americans and engaged in the production of products for pharmaceuticals, mining, and the automotive industry. However, in a new place, in the city of Neuss (North Rhine-Westphalia), the relations of a white-skinned German and a dark-skinned Asian were looked with disbelief. Naimul asked the management to transfer him to the company's headquarters in the United States. His wish was granted in 1992.
Study
Actually, from this time on, the conscious life of Javed begins, which in the American manner began to be called Jawed Karim. The boy graduated from St. Paul (Minnesota) high school and enrolled in Urbana-Champaign - University of Illinois.
By this time he was dreaming of computers and information technology. In 1998, Jawed got a job at Silicon Graphics, where he worked on three-dimensional voxel management with a large dataset for volume rendering. The system is used in the medical project “Human Visualization”, in the framework of which detailed images of the cross section of a person are created, combined into a single 3D model.
Paypal
The young man was attracted by programming, to which he gave all his free (and not only) time. It got to the point that the young man abandoned his studies for a while. But there were good reasons for this. Javed Karim was lured into an interesting project - PayPal is one of the first and very successful electronic payment services. It’s a joke, among his colleagues was Elon Musk, the main newsmaker in the automotive and space industries of recent years. By the way, Javed didn’t eat bread in vain: he developed and implemented a real-time anti-fraud program for the payment system.
However, Karim Jr. clearly understood that without education, further professional development is impossible. He continued attending lectures, especially studying computer sciences, and in 2004 received a bachelor's degree in computer science. He subsequently received a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
YouTube father
Working at the PayPal office, Javed Karim made friends with two proactive colleagues - Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. Young people gushing with ideas, and at some point the original video hosting project was born at that time. The idea was that any person in the world could post his video, which was stored remotely on the hosting and was available for viewing at any time to all the inhabitants of the planet. Thus, the trinity actually became the fathers of now the most popular project in the history of the Internet - YouTube. By the way, they say that it was Karim who dawned on the eureka, although with the "sharing of the inheritance" he got a smaller share of the great trinity.
From the very beginning (from April 23, 2005), the startup began to enjoy incredible, ever-increasing success. Business Sharks, Internet corporations could not disregard such a successful project. Ultimately, the service was bought by Google, which offered the most attractive conditions. Javed, in particular, received 137, 443 Google shares for use, which automatically made him a millionaire. At the close of the transaction, his fortune was estimated at 64 million dollars.
By the way, the first YouTube video was “uploaded” by Javed Karim. The legendary video is called "I am at the zoo, " and an emigrant friend from the USSR, Yakov Lapitsky, acted as the operator. Over 12 years it has been viewed 44 million times.
In 2008, the millionaire programmer founded Karim Y Ventures. Her tasks include support, including financial support, for student startups.
