Sam Kazemian
Sam Hamidi-Kazemian (born February 12, 1993) is an Iranian software programmer.[1] He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia.[3]
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| Born | Sam Hamidi-Kazemian[1] February 12, 1993[1] |
| Education | UCLA (neuroscience and philosophy)[1] |
| Occupation | President of Everipedia[3] |
| Known for | Co-founding Everipedia[4] |
| Website | everipedia.org |
Education
Kazemian graduated from UCLA in 2015.[5] He changed his mind about going to medical school in order to work on Everipedia.[6]
Everipedia
Sam Kazemian founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014 in Kazemian's dormitory room at UCLA.[4]
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."[7]
Personal life
When he was young, he and his family moved to the US.[2] He is a blockchain enthusiast[8] and a fan of the programming language Python.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Sam Kazemian". Crunchbase. 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jafari, Hamed (9 June 2016). Interview with the Founders of Everipedia AKA the "Thug Wikipedia". TechRasa. http://techrasa.com/2016/06/09/interview-founders-everipedia-aka-thug-wikipedia/. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chavez-Dreyfuss, Gertrude (8 February 2018). "Novogratz's New Fund, Others Invest $30 Million in Online Encyclopedia". U.S. News & World Report. https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2018-02-08/novogratzs-new-fund-others-invest-30-million-in-online-encyclopedia.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding. FinSMEs. 10 February 2018. http://www.finsmes.com/2018/02/everipedia-raises-30m-in-series-a-funding.html.
- ↑ Everipedia: Bản sao xấu xí và tội lỗi của Wikipedia. VNG Corporation. 10 August 2017. https://news.zing.vn/everipedia-ban-sao-xau-xi-va-toi-loi-cua-wikipedia-post785351.html. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ Nazarian, Adelle (9 February 2016). Everipedia: The Wikipedia Competitor for the People. Breitbart News. http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/02/09/everipedia-the-wikipedia-competitor-for-the-people/.
- ↑ James, Andrea (12 June 2017). "Can Everipedia remake collaborative encyclopedias to be inclusive and enjoyable?". Boing Boing.
- ↑ Anthony, Miles (6 August 2017). Sam Kazemian, Founder and CEO at Everipedia, Shares 4 Years of Mining Experience. The Crypto Times. https://cryptotim.es/interview-sam-kazemian-founder-ceo-everipedia/. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ Moghadam, Mahbod (2015). "What I Learned From My Rap Genius Cofounders". NextShark.