Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German-American (of Bangladeshi descent) Internet entrepreneur, who worked at PayPal, and co-founded YouTube. He is the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named 'Me at the zoo' and as of 30th September 2017 has reached over 42 million views. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-internet fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
