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
changeKazemian graduated from UCLA in 2015.[5] He changed his mind about going to medical school in order to work on Everipedia.[6]
Everipedia
changeSam 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
changeWhen 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
change- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 10 June 2017. 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 10 February 2018.
- ↑ "Everipedia: Bản sao xấu xí và tội lỗi của Wikipedia" [Everipedia: ugly copy and sin of Wikipedia]. VNG Corporation. 10 August 2017. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ Nazarian, Adelle (9 February 2016). "Everipedia: The Wikipedia Competitor for the People". Breitbart News.
- ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ↑ Moghadam, Mahbod (2015). "What I Learned From My Rap Genius Cofounders". NextShark.