Hooman Radfar
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Carnegie Mellon University (M.S.)
Hooman Radfar | |
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.jpg) Radfar, 2013 | |
| Born | July 14, 1980 |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E/B.A.) Carnegie Mellon University (M.S.) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Hooman Radfar (born July 14, 1980, London, England) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is co-founder and CEO at Collective, an online back-office platform designed for freelancers and consultants. He is currently a Venture Partner at Expa, a San Francisco-based start-up venture firm and studio where he was a founding partner. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of AddThis, which was purchased by Oracle in 2016 for around $200 million.[1]
At the time of the Iranian Revolution, his family immigrated to England in 1979. Radfar was born in London in 1980. His family later moved to the United States where he was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Radfar graduated from Upper St. Clair High School in 1998. In 2002, he graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in computer science and economics. In 2004, he earned his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University where he researched social networking, multi-agent systems, and their applications to computational economics.[2]