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Jawed Karim

1979 - Today

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Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is a Bangladeshi-German origin American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 310 million times as of March 4, 2024. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jawed Karim has received more than 7,206,713 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jawed Karim is the 145th most popular businessperson (up from 399th in 2019), the 1,331st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,702nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Businessperson.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Jawed Karim ranks 145 out of 601. Before him are Ren Zhengfei, Martha Stewart, Lamine Diack, Reed Hastings, Johann Friedrich Böttger, and Larry Silverstein. After him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Shibusawa Eiichi, Christina Onassis, Melitta Bentz, William C. Durant, and Al-Waleed bin Talal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Jawed Karim ranks 6. Before him are Heath Ledger, Kimi Räikkönen, Valentino Rossi, Andrea Pirlo, and Markus Persson. After him are Chris Pratt, Diego Forlán, Rosamund Pike, Anders Behring Breivik, Jason Momoa, and Gong Yoo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jawed Karim ranks 1,331 out of 6,142. Before him are Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861), Hildegard Knef (1925), Tilman Riemenschneider (1460), Oskar Morgenstern (1902), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), and Lucius Antonius Saturninus (20). After him are Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806), Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), and Gertrude of Merania (1185).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Jawed Karim ranks 16. Before him are Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), James Mayer de Rothschild (1792), Uli Hoeneß (1952), and Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682). After him are Melitta Bentz (1873), Karl Albrecht (1920), Dietmar Hopp (1940), Karl Baedeker (1801), Axel Springer (1912), and Maurice de Hirsch (1831).

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