Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jawed Karim

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Jawed Karim.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur of Bangladeshi and German descent. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. This inaugural video, titled Me at the zoo and uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 237 million times, as of July 16, 2022. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met the fellow YouTube co-founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, he had designed many of the core components including its real-time anti-Internet-fraud system.

I was incredibly impressed with HOTorNOT, because it was the first time that someone had designed a website where anyone could upload content that everyone else could view. That was a new concept because up until that point, it was always the people who owned the website who would provide the content.
Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.
It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same place. — © Jawed Karim
It wasn't like I wanted to be the next Marc Andreessen, but it would be cool to be in the same place.
Our users were one step ahead of us. They began using YouTube to share videos of all kinds. Their dogs, vacations, anything. We found this very interesting. We said, 'Why not let the users define what YouTube is all about?'
Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.
That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.
Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube.
Berlin is well on its way to becoming one of the most vibrant startup hubs in the world.
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