Sam Kazemian


Sam Hamidi-Kazemian is an Iranian-American software programmer. He is the co-founder and president of Everipedia, a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia. He founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014. In June 2019, Kazemian co-founded Frax, a stablecoin cryptocurrency, with Trump senior economic advisor Stephen Moore.

Education

Kazemian attended Westlake High School, where he participated in athletics. He was a member of the UCLA Powerlifting team from 2012 until 2015. He graduated from UCLA in 2015.
Kazemian lived in a student apartment while attending UCLA and mined Bitcoin.

Career

Starting as a small project in Kazemian's dormitory room at UCLA, Sam Kazemian founded Everipedia with Theodor Forselius in December 2014.
In 2017, Kazemian told 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."