First person to upload a YouTube video, and one of the company's three founders, Jawed Karim previously worked for which internet company?
Jawed Karim Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German-American (of Bangladeshi descent) Internet entrepreneur, who worked at PayPal, and co-founded YouTube. He is the first person to upload a video on it. The video he released was named 'Me at the zoo' and as of 30th September 2017 has reached over 42 million views. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-internet fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.
Marques Brownlee Marques Brownlee, also known by his YouTube username, MKBHD, is an American vlogger, best known for his technology-focussed YouTube channel. The channel, whose name is a concatenation of MKB (Brownlee's initials) and HD (for High Definition), has over 5 million subscribers and over 619 million total video views. In August 2013, Vic Gundotra, former Senior Vice President, Social for Google, called Brownlee "the best technology reviewer on the planet right now". During one of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary debates that was cosponsored by YouTube, Brownlee asked the candidates, by video, whether tech companies and the government can find a middle ground over encryption while considering rights to privacy and national security.