Sam Kazemian
Sam Kazemian | |
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 Sam Kazemian in 2018 | |
| Born | Sam Hamidi-Kazemian February 12, 1993 |
| Occupation | President of Everipedia[1] |
| Known for | Co-founding Everipedia[2] Co-founding Frax [3] |
Sam Hamidi-Kazemian (Template:Lang-fa; born February 12, 1993) is an Iranian-American software programmer.[4] He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia,[1] a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia.[5] He founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014[2] and also founded Frax, a stablecoin cryptocurrency, in June 2019 with Stephen Moore.[6]
Education
Kazemian is from an Iranian Muslim family, although he is 1/16th Iranian-Jewish.[7] Kazemian attended Westlake High School, where he participated in athletics.[8] He was a member of the UCLA Powerlifting team from 2012 until 2015.[9] He graduated from UCLA in 2015.[10]
Kazemian lived in a student apartment while attending UCLA and mined Bitcoin.[11]
Career
Starting as a small project in Kazemian's dormitory room at UCLA, Sam Kazemian founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014.[2]
In 2017, Kazemian told 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 June 2019, Kazemian founded Frax, a stablecoin cryptocurrency, with Trump senior economic advisor Stephen Moore.[6]
References
- ^ a b Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (8 February 2018). "Novogratz's New Fund, Others Invest $30 Million in Online Encyclopedia". U.S. News & World Report.
- ^ a b c "Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Trump's Fed Pick Stephen Moore Announces New Cryptocurrency". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ https://jewishjournal.com/culture/health/240270/how-a-second-brain-tumor-inspired-mahbod-moghadam-to-change-his-corporate-philosophy/
- ^ a b James, Andrea (12 June 2017). "Can Everipedia remake collaborative encyclopedias to be inclusive and enjoyable?". Boing Boing.
- ^ a b "Trump's Fed Pick Stephen Moore Announces New Cryptocurrency". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
- ^ https://jewishjournal.com/culture/health/240270/how-a-second-brain-tumor-inspired-mahbod-moghadam-to-change-his-corporate-philosophy/
- ^ "Sam Kazemian". Athletic.net. 2018.
- ^ "Sam Kazemian - 2013-14 Powerlifting Roster - UCLA Club Sports". UCLA Club Sports. 2018.
- ^ "Everipedia: Bản sao xấu xí và tội lỗi của Wikipedia" [Everipedia: ugly copy and sin of Wikipedia]. VNG Corporation. 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Meet the 22-year-old Swede with world-conquering plans for his crypto-remake of Wikipedia". nordic.businessinsider.com. 2018-02-26. Retrieved 2018-12-13.