This boring and dull clip was the first video uploaded on YouTube. Co-founder Jawed Karim posted it on 8:27 pm on April 23, 2005.
According to his Wikipedia profile, before YouTube, he also designed and implement as chief architect “many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system.” And if you’re reading this while pondering your next step in your career, let me add to your depression with this final bit of tidbit: Karim enrolled in grad school (Stanford for computer science) after he founded YouTube. When Google acquired YouTube, he received 137,443 shares of stock, which is worth as of today $74,837,713.
I think staying in on a Saturday night really worked out in the end for him. His mom however isn’t a fan of YouTube: “There are too many crazy things on it. I would wish it was 95 percent science and 5 percent silly stuff, but it’s the opposite.” I think by crazy she means awesome.
