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Sam Kazemian
Sam Kazemian in 2018
Born
Sam Hamidi-Kazemian[1]

(1993-02-12) February 12, 1993 (age 31)[1]
Mazandaran Province, Iran[2]
EducationUCLA (neuroscience and philosophy)[1]
OccupationPresident of Everipedia[3]
Known forCo-founding Everipedia[4]
Websiteeveripedia.org

Sam Hamidi-Kazemian (born February 12, 1993) is an Iranian-American software programmer.[1] He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia,[3] a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia.[5] He founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014.[4]

Education

Kazemian attended Westlake High School, where he participated in athletics.[6] He was member of the UCLA Powerlifting team from 2013 to 2014 in his junior year of high school.[7] Kazemian was a double major in neuroscience and philosophy at UCLA.[1] He graduated from UCLA in 2015.[8] Kazemian changed his mind about going to medical school in order to work on Everipedia.[9]

Everipedia

Starting as a small project in Kazemian's dormitory room at UCLA, Sam Kazemian founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014.[4] Kazemian and Forselius constructed the first MVP for Everipedia while Kazemian was still at UCLA.[10] Kazemian approached Mahbod Moghadam, the co-founder of Rap Genius (also known as Genius[11]) while Moghadam was speaking at UCLA and showed him his Everipedia page. Moghadam was frustrated that his Wikipedia page kept getting deleted. Moghadam seeing his Everipedia page moved him and it helped him understand Kazemian's idea better.[9]

In 2017, Kazemian told to Boing Boing that "Wikia, like Wikipedia, uses really old software that was built in 2001. Meanwhile there are all these new, modern crowd-knowledge sites like Rap Genius, Quora and StackOverflow, but nobody ever tried to attack the original beast - a wiki of everything - with the new, modern tools. That is what Everipedia aims to do."[5] In 2017, he stated that Everipedia aims to be the largest online encyclopedia.[12]

Personal life

When he was young, he and his family moved to the US.[2] Kazemian resides in Los Angeles, California, US.[1] In 2013, he became interested in Bitcoin.[13] He mined over 50 various cryptocoins to become more familiar with them and to find out about the changes that were occurring in the blockchain. The top cryptocoins he preferred from back in the day was Dogecoin, Namecoin, Datacoin (defunct), and Vertcoin.[14] Kazemian stated that in 2014 there were many successful cryptocurrencies to mine. In his dormitory room, Kazemian assembled a GPU and CPU mining operation using his outdated desktop computers and laptops to mine cryptocurrencies.[13] He is a blockchain enthusiast[14] and a fan of the programming language Python.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Sam Kazemian". Crunchbase. 2018.
  2. ^ a b Jafari, Hamed (9 June 2016). "Interview with the Founders of Everipedia AKA the "Thug Wikipedia"". TechRasa.
  3. ^ a b Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (8 February 2018). "Novogratz's New Fund, Others Invest $30 Million in Online Encyclopedia". U.S. News & World Report.
  4. ^ a b c "Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 10 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b James, Andrea (12 June 2017). "Can Everipedia remake collaborative encyclopedias to be inclusive and enjoyable?". Boing Boing.
  6. ^ "Sam Kazemian". Athletic.net. 2018.
  7. ^ "Sam Kazemian - 2013-14 Powerlifting Roster - UCLA Club Sports". UCLA Club Sports. 2018.
  8. ^ "Everipedia: Bản sao xấu xí và tội lỗi của Wikipedia" [Everipedia: ugly copy and sin of Wikipedia]. VNG Corporation. 10 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b Nazarian, Adelle (9 February 2016). "Everipedia: The Wikipedia Competitor for the People". Breitbart News.
  10. ^ Jafery, Reza (19 February 2018). "How Everipedia is Decentralizing History with Blockchain". Hackernoon.
  11. ^ Gregoire, Waylae (2016). "Exiled Rap Genius Founder Plans to Overtake Wikipedia, Wants to Suck Mark Zuckerberg's Dick". NextShark.
  12. ^ Moon, Jiwon (31 July 2017). "Everipedia Update | Part 1: Intro to Everipedia and New Features Since Campaign". Wefunder.
  13. ^ a b Liebowitz, David (11 December 2017). "Crypto Veteran and Blockchain Engineer Sam Kazemian Helps You Understand Bitcoin Once and For All". Bitcoin For Plebs.
  14. ^ a b Anthony, Miles (6 August 2017). "Sam Kazemian, Founder and CEO at Everipedia, Shares 4 Years of Mining Experience". The Crypto Times.
  15. ^ Moghadam, Mahbod (2015). "What I Learned From My Rap Genius Cofounders". NextShark.
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