Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is a co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. While working at PayPal, he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The three later founded the YouTube video sharing website in 2005. After co-founding the company and developing the YouTube concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Karim enrolled as a graduate student in computer science at Stanford University while acting as an advisor to YouTube.

Jawed has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures, with the goal of helping current and former university students to launch their business ideas.