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Currently owned by google, youtube is the largest worldwide video-sharing community. Every single minute 24-hour of videos is uploaded. It lets the individuals broadcast themselves. There are many video sharing sites online now but the popularity of youtube does not let any other site stand out. Following is the details of the co-founder of youtube who uploaded the first video on youtube.

Co founder of Youtube is Karim Jawad
Ethnicity: Bangladeshi American/ German American
Place of birth: Germany
Date of Birth: January, 1st 1979
Age: 31
Religion: Islam
Father: Naimul Karim
Education: Stanford University and University of Illinois
Jawed co-founded youtube to enable individuals worldwide to broadcast themselves. Prior to YouTube, Jawed was one of the earliest engineers of paypal who implemented its first real-time anti-fraud systems.

Jawed has a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois  an MS in computer science from Stanford University. Jawed is also a Sequoia Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital.

When YouTube was acquired by google, Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million based on Google's closing stock price at the time. It can be mentioned that

There are many inappropriate videos there now on youtube. So it is strongly recommended not to encourage your child to visit Youtube on their own as it is recommended to keep the computer at living room, not at your child bedroom.

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