Category: Iran

  • The Iranian Women’s Revolution and Crossing the chasm

    In product development, the goal of every product owner from startups to the top 10 tech companies is to cross the chasm. Think about Apple, Airbnb, and Uber, they all were startups that crossed the chasm. The chasm refers to the technology adoption lifecycle or the transition from the early market into the mainstream eye.…

  • Shahs of Angels

    For the last few weeks I’m thinking about starting an angel network for Iranian immigrant founders in the US, supported by Iranian angels. Why? There’s no question about systemic bias in the world, everywhere, including “the land of free”. I immigrated to the US when I was close to 30, and started my first startup…

  • Caro Lucas

    10 years ago the world lost one of the greatest AI scientists of our time, Prof. Caro Lucas. I’m super-proud and lucky to had him as my mentor and advisor and together we created BELBIC and the BEL (Brain Emotional Learning) algorithm, one of the most robust and lightweight algorithms based on emotional AI. That…