Jawed Karim

Photo: Picture taken by Robin BrownOriginal uploaded by Jawed (Transfered by Quibik) · Public domain

Entrepreneur · Scorpio Sun

Jawed Karim birth chart

  • October 28, 1979
  • Merseburg, Germany
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunScorpio
☽︎MoonCapricornorAquarius
Main elementWater 68%

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Four Scorpio planets and the first upload to YouTube

Jawed Karim

Me at the zoo, uploaded on April 23, 2005, is the site's inaugural video, and Karim uploaded it.

Venus in Scorpio conjunct Uranus in Scorpio reads as an appetite for the new.

Mars in Leo is the loud outlier in a quiet chart.

Astrologers read Sun in Scorpio, Mercury in Scorpio and Venus in Scorpio as a taste for what lies underneath, and at PayPal Karim designed core components including a real-time anti-fraud system, which is spotting what does not belong, on paper a very Scorpio job.

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Sun in Scorpio
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Mercury in Scorpio
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Venus in Scorpio

Only in this chart

It takes four placements to single out Jawed Karim: Sun in Scorpio, Mercury in Scorpio, Venus in Scorpio and Jupiter in Virgo. Ne-Yo comes closest: same Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, but Sun in Libra.

  • Sun in Scorpio with Saturn in Virgo. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 275 here, Metta Sandiford-Artest and Hend Sabry among them.
  • Sun and Mars swap signs. Sun in Scorpio and Mars in Leo each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Gabe Newell's chart, 1 chart in 79 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Scorpio Sun reads as intense and private, with the Moon in Capricorn or Aquarius depending on birth hour. Elements run water 68%, fire 16%, earth 13%, air 3%, fixed first at 81%, the nearest mix to Robin Williams.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun sextile Jupiter (1.0°), Venus sextile Saturn (1.0°).

Generational · shared by a whole age group
♅︎ ♏︎Uranus in Scorpio7% of charts here
♆︎ ♐︎Neptune in Sagittarius11% of charts here
♇︎ ♎︎Pluto in Libra8% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Mars trine Neptune (0.3°). Drive and the dreamer side run downhill together, as tight as Stormzy’s.
  • Sun sextile Jupiter (0.7°). The ego gets an easy opening from appetite for more, as tight as John Quincy Adams’.
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Closest chart twins

  • Ne-Yo, born 10 days earlier: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Sun splits, Scorpio here against Libra.
  • Bill Gates, 24 years earlier, repeats the Sun and Venus signs, average gap 26°.
  • Lucy Guo is the nearest in business (1994): same Mercury, Venus and Mars, split on Sun and Jupiter.

Born on October 28

October 28 also belongs to Bill Gates (1955, business), Joaquin Phoenix (1974, film) and Frank Ocean (1987, rap). October 28, 1979 was a Sunday, and the Moon was at first quarter.

Among entrepreneurs

Of this chart's placements, Mercury in Scorpio is the rarest among entrepreneurs (6%), closest to Kōnosuke Matsushita and Andrew Carnegie. Scorpio ranks 7th of 12 Suns here, with Bill Gates and Gabe Newell nearest on the same Sun.

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Scorpio compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, a Scorpio Sun clicks most with Virgo, Capricorn and Scorpio. Scorpio with every sign →

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