jawed-karim
The Insanely Rich Kid Next Door
Ryan Tate · 10/28/09 03:27PMForgotten YouTube founder Jawed Karim prefers Minnesota to the Valley
Nicholas Carlson · 08/19/08 10:00AMThe other YouTube cofounder, Jawed Karim, has all the good ideas. First, according to an interview Karim gave the New York Times in 2006, he was the one came up with the idea of a video-sharing site that would eventually sell to Google for $1.65 billion. Second, he's also the one who, even before collecting Google's millions, smartly realized he didn't need to stick around to see how things turned out. Karim headed back to Stanford to finish his Ph.D., which he's still working on. Now, on the side, Karim's decided to take on what his former PayPal colleague Peter Thiel calls a "cushy" profession and become a startup-seeding venture capitalist, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Maybe Karim's idea-well has gone dry? Karim's firm, the awkwardly named Youniversity, will focus on college students in Minnesota and ignore Silicon Valley. The Valley, Jawed told the Star-Tribune, "has a lot of noise."
YouTube founders tell famous fib to Oprah
Owen Thomas · 11/08/07 11:13AM
YouTube founder Steve Chen, on the Oprah show, recites the same old tale he and Chad Hurley have been trained to give about how YouTube got his start: Chen threw a dinner party, friends filmed each other with videocameras, and then realized the videos were hard to share. What the two didn't tell Oprah: YouTube's third cofounder, Jawed Karim, claims the dinner party never happened, and he came up with the idea for a video-sharing site.
The PayPal Mafia personified
Megan McCarthy · 10/26/07 03:05PMYouTube's boring co-founder runs from media spotlight
Nick Douglas · 10/13/06 02:26PMRemember Jawed Karim, the YouTube co-founder who went to school instead of running the company? Yeah, neither do we — we forgot him five minutes after reading his humdrum profile in the New York Times. So who told him that the talk he was about to give at Stanford would become a "massive media stampede, with television crews and reporters from across the bay area planning to attend"?