YouTube silent third partner revealed ..or ...One lucky SOB!
This is Jawed Karim, 27 and a student at Stanford. Thanks to Google's acquisition of YouTube he's become a multi-millionaire overnight. Talk about right place at the right time!
Karim met the other two faces of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen when he worked with them at PayPal, and spent many an evening dreaming up the next big web sensation with both guys.
At some stage those dreams spawned a video sharing site that became the biggest thing on the web this year, but when conceived Karim chose not to take up a job at YouTube with his mates, preferring to continue pursuit of his masters in Computer Science at Stanford.
He did however remain on the YouTube payroll as an advisor and that decision has secured his future to the tune of millions! You can read the full story below.
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again
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