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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.[9] Moghadam was frustrated that his Wikipedia page kept getting deleted.[9] 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.[14] The top cryptocoins he preferred from back in the day was Dogecoin, Namecoin, Datacoin (defuncted), and Vertcoin.[14] Kazemian stated that in 2014 there were many successful cryptocurrencies to mine.[13] 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 c d 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 c 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 c 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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