Jawed Karim and Steve Chen

Sunday, January 02, 2005

Jawed Karim was born in East Germany to a Bangladeshi father and German mother in 1979. Karim immigrated to the United States in 1992. While working at PayPal in 2002, Karim met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (who was born in Taiwan in 1978 and immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1986). Karim, Chen, and Hurley founded YouTube in 2005.