Powerful Iranian-Americans in Silicon Valley

#10

Shayan Zadeh & Alex Mehr

Founders of Zoosk, an online dating company with over $180M annual revenue.

Zoosk launched in December 2007. Its co-founders, Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, were the company’s original CEOs. They are both Iranian immigrants who migrated to US to continue their education.  Zadeh and Mehr met as undergraduates at Sharif University of Technology in Iran and travelled to the US together to attend graduate school at the University of Maryland.  Zadeh worked at Microsoft after graduating with a master’s degree from University of Maryland in computer science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Mehr earned his master’s degree and PhD and later worked for NASA. Mehr attended business school at the University of California at Berkeley, but he dropped out to work on Zoosk.

 



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