Flipagram was founded in 2013 by Farhad Mohit. In 2018, ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, combined Flipagram with Musical.ly to create TikTok.
Sean Rad (born May 22, 1986) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and the Founder of Tinder. Rad launched Tinder in 2012 and by 2015, Tinder was the top grossing app in 99 countries, and in 2017, Tinder became the highest grossing app in Apple's App Store. San Francisco, California, U.S.
Salar Kamangar (born 1977) is an Iranian-American senior executive at Google and former CEO of Google's YouTube brand. Salar was 7th employee to join Google.com. San Francisco, California, U.S.
Pierre Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and the Founder of eBay.com. On September 4, 1995, Pierre launched an online service called Auction Web, which would eventually be developed as the auction site eBay.com. San Francisco, California.
Saeed Amidi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and the Founder of Plug and Play Tech Center. One of the largest start-up incubators and super early stage investors in Silicon Valley. San Francisco, California.
Mansour Samadpour is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and the Founder of iehinc.com (IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group). One of the largest food testing labs in the U.S.
AmirAli Talasaz is co-founder and co-CEO of GuardantHealth.com Health, a leading precision oncology company which raised $550M in venture capital. Talasaz is an entrepreneur in the rare genomics and clinical diagnostics fields.
Shahin Hedayat: Founding partner at Candou Ventures, CandouVentures.com. Shahin founded Beceem and Enverv reaching IPO and acquisitions generating over $4Billion dollars.
Ramin Farjad is Co-founder of Aquantia.com. Ramin is an Iranian-American entrepreneur. Aquantia was acquired by Marvell.com Technology Group on 2019
Iranian-Americans are among the most educated and successful communities in the U. S., according to a report by the Iranian Studies group at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Iranian-Americans have founded, or hold senior leadership positions at, many major US companies, including Fortune 500 companies.
Persia was a power house of academic knowledge in ancient times. They were leaders in astronomy, medicine, mathematics, literature and philosophy. Throughout the millenniums of invasions and conquests, Persians have been tough enough to live through it and repel the invaders. Even during Middle Ages Persia produced the best scholars in the world in all fields of science.