“why the fuck do i need a Google+ account to comment on a video?”
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Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 404 million times as of August 2026. During Karim's time working at PayPal, where he met fellow YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and C…
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business · American entrepreneur and software engineer (born 1979) · computer scientist · entrepreneur · YouTuber · television producer · software engineer · also Jawed Karim, Jawed, Karim
Born 28 October 1979 · Q76694
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2024· 2 entries
Published “Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 2,605 times.
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Published “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 4,572 times.
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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Published “Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer” in Nature — cited 3,304 times.
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2013· 1 entry
YouTube began requiring that commenting on its videos be done via a Google+ account, a move that was widely opposed by the YouTube community
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2005· 4 entries
Published video “Me at the zoo”.
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PDT (April 24, 2005 UTC), and uploaded the website's first video, "Me at the zoo", the same day
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Has been viewed over 404 million times as of August 2026
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Founded the video-sharing website YouTube
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1997· 1 entry
And attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1979· 2 entries
Born 1979-10-28.
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In Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother
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