Jawed Karim is an American software engineer 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. His inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo and uploaded on 23 April 2005, has been viewed over 129 million times. In March 2008, Karim launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures.
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Jawed Karim is an American software engineer 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. His inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo and uploaded on 23 April 2005, has been viewed over 129 million times. In March 2008, Karim launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures with partners Keith Rabois and Kevin Hartz. Karim was one of Airbnb’s first investors, investing in the company’s initial seed round in April 2009.
On 6 November 2013, YouTube began requiring that commenting on its videos be done via a Google+ account. An online petition to revert the change garnered over 240,000 signatures. Google subsequently dropped its Google+ requirement across all products, with YouTube announced in October 2018 its intention to shut down Google+ in April 2019. Google was closed for personal accounts on April 2, 2019.
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