Besides being such a popular figure in the internet, Jawed has been keeping his personal profile low and secret. To date, there is no any information about his married life and wife in the media. His nationality is German and American and has German and Bangladeshi ethnicity.
Jawed was raised in Germany till the early 1990s and then he moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota with his parents in 1992. There he got enrolled at Saint Paul Central High School and he also earned his high school graduation from there. After that, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science. But before he earned his Bachelor's degree from there, he joined PayPal as its early employee. He also continued his coursework and finally earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Illinois in 2004.
He also has a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. In 1998, he did an intern at Silicon Graphics Inc. There he served on 3D voxel data management which also included the data for the Visible Human Project. While he was in PayPal, he became close with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and together they founded a YouTube in 2005.
On 23rd of April 2005, he posted the first video on YouTube under the title Me at the zoo. As he promised to be an informal adviser, he was offered a much lower share in the company after YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006. He earned the $66 million after Google purchased YouTube.
At the end of 2006, he gave a lecture at the University of Illinois' annual ACM Conference about the history of YouTube and this lecture was titled YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth. In early 2008, he launched a foundation called Youniversity Ventures, the main aim of this venture is to help the university student to develop and launch their own business ideas.
While in 2006, YouTube sold it's stock to Google, his take was $334 million, which in other words he owned about 20% of YouTube at the time of sale. Some sources claim his stock worth was $64 million at the time. As of 2018, his net worth is $140m as of 2018.
