Sam Kazemian

Sam Hamidi-Kazemian (Persian: سام حمیدی‌کاظمیان‎; born February 12, 1993) is an Iranian-American software programmer. He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia,[1] a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia.[4] He founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014[2] and also founded Frax, a stablecoin cryptocurrency, in 2019 with Stephen Moore.[5]

Sam Kazemian
Sam Kazemian in 2018
Born
Sam Hamidi-Kazemian

(1993-02-12) February 12, 1993
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
OccupationPresident of Everipedia[1]
Known forCo-founding Everipedia[2] and Frax [3]

Biography

Education

Kazemian attended Westlake High School, where he participated in athletics.[6] He was a member of the UCLA Powerlifting team from 2012 until 2015.[7] He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2015.[8]

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."[4]

In 2019, Kazemian founded Frax, a stablecoin cryptocurrency, with Trump senior economic advisor Stephen Moore.[5]

Personal life

Kazemian is from an Iranian Muslim family, although he is 1/16th Iranian-Jewish.[9]

References
  1. Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (8 February 2018). "Novogratz's New Fund, Others Invest $30 Million in Online Encyclopedia". U.S. News & World Report.
  2. "Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 10 February 2018.
  3. "Trump's Fed Pick Stephen Moore Announces New Cryptocurrency". Fortune. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  4. James, Andrea (12 June 2017). "Can Everipedia remake collaborative encyclopedias to be inclusive and enjoyable?". Boing Boing.
  5. John Roberts, Jeff (October 21, 2019). "Trump's Former Fed Pick Stephen Moore Announces Cryptocurrency to Compete With Central Banks". Fortune. Archived from the original on January 14, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  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. Geroulis, Tasha (October 15, 2018). "Second Brain Tumor Inspires Mahbod Moghadam to Change Corporate Philosophy". Jewish Journal. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
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