A History of Silicon Valley

This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"


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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim (Germany, 1979), grew up in Germany, the son of a Bangladeshi immigrant and a biochemist, and relocated to Minnesota with his parents in 1992. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but dropped out to join PayPal in 2000. He quit PayPal to return to school but in 2005 he helped Chad Hurley and Steve Chen start YouTube. See Steve Chen for the rest of the story. In 2009 Jawed, now a graduate student at Stanford, launched the venture-capital firm Youniversity Ventures to help students start companies.
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