The 19-second clip was uploaded by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the ...

That man was Jawed Karim, one of YouTube’s three co-founders. “All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really ...

At least, that's when three former PayPal employees – Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – got together and decided on a name: YouTube. As Karim later explained in an early re-telling of ...

The co-founders—Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim—struggled to attract users, so they created YouTube's first video themselves. The clip, titled "Me at the zoo," featured Karim at the ...