Sam Kazemian

Sam Kazemian
Sam Kazemian in 2018
Born
Sam Hamidi-Kazemian[1]

(1993-02-12) February 12, 1993 (age 31)[1]
Mazandaran Province, Iran[2]
EducationUCLA (neuroscience and philosophy)[1]
OccupationPresident of Everipedia[3]
Known forCo-founding Everipedia[4]
Websiteeveripedia.org

Sam Hamidi-Kazemian (born February 12, 1993) is an Iranian software programmer.[1] He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia.[3]

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Sam Kazemian". Crunchbase. 2018.
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Everipedia Raises $30m in Series A Funding". FinSMEs. 10 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ Nazarian, Adelle (9 February 2016). "Everipedia: The Wikipedia Competitor for the People". Breitbart News.
  7. ↑ James, Andrea (12 June 2017). "Can Everipedia remake collaborative encyclopedias to be inclusive and enjoyable?". Boing Boing.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Moghadam, Mahbod (2015). "What I Learned From My Rap Genius Cofounders". NextShark.