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词条 Hooman Radfar
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

      AddThis (Clearspring)    Expa  

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Hooman Radfar
| image =Tech Cocktial Sessions DC - June 19, 2013 - 9124785305 (cropped).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Hooman Radfar, 2013
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|7|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| occupation = Entrepreneur
| education = University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E/B.A.)
Carnegie Mellon University (M.S.)
| residence = San Francisco, California, U.S.}}Hooman Radfar (born July 14, 1980, London, England) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is a partner at Expa, a San Francisco-based start-up studio. Previously he was co-founder and served as CEO of AddThis. AddThis provides the most widely used marketing tools for web site creators. According to web measurement firm ComScore, in 2015 the platform was ranked #1 in AdFocus, reaching over 97% of users in the United States ahead of Google, Yahoo and Facebook.[1] According to TechCrunch, AddThis was purchased by Oracle in 2016 for around $200 million.[2]

Early life and education

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. in Information Networking from the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he researched social networking.[3]

Career

AddThis (Clearspring)

In 2004, Radfar and Austin Fath founded Clearspring Technologies to create developer platforms based on their graduate research in web services and social networking at Carnegie Mellon.[4] Clearspring launched the first content sharing and tracking service for web publishers in 2006.[5] The company acquired AddThis in 2008[6], XGraph in 2011 and was rebranded as AddThis in 2012.

Expa

In 2014, Radfar moved to San Francisco,[7] joining Expa as an EIR.[8] He became a partner at the firm alongside Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai in 2015.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|title = comScore Ranks the Top 50 U.S. Digital Media Properties for January 2015|url = https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Ranks-the-Top-50-US-Digital-Media-Properties-for-January-2015|website = comScore, Inc|access-date = 2016-02-01}}
2. ^{{Cite web|title = Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/oracle-addthis/|website = TechCrunch|access-date = 2016-02-01|first = Ingrid|last = Lunden}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=LinkedIn Public Profile|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRg6ZIgGpc}}
4. ^{{cite news|author=Shropshire, Corilyn |title= Clearspring's 'widget' deal may help boost NBC|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/business/technology/2007/06/06/Clearspring-s-widget-deal-may-help-boost-NBC.print|date=June 6, 2007|work=Pittsburgh Post Gazette|accessdate=December 14, 2013}}
5. ^{{cite news|author=Cashmore, Pete|title=Clearspring to Track Widgets Across Netvibes, Myspace, and More|url=http://mashable.com/2006/11/06/clearspring-to-track-widgets-across-netvibes-myspace-and-more/|date=November 6, 2006|work=Mashable|accessdate=December 14, 2013}}
6. ^{{cite news|author=Lardinois, Frederic|title=Widget Platform Clearspring Acquires AddThis|url=http://readwrite.com/2008/09/30/monetizing_a_button_clearspring_acquires_addthis#awesm=~os5XvrSdBS0r1Ke/|date=September 30, 2008|work=ReadWrite|accessdate=December 14, 2013}}
7. ^{{Cite web|title = AddThis founder Hooman Radfar moves west - Washington Business Journal|url = http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/10/addthis-founder-hooman-radfar-moves-west.html|website = Washington Business Journal|access-date = 2016-02-01}}
8. ^{{Cite web|title = Expa Brings On Hooman Radfar, AddThis Founder, As San Francisco EIR|url = https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/expa-brings-on-hooman-radfar-addthis-founder-as-san-francisco-eir/|website = TechCrunch|access-date = 2016-02-01|first = Jordan|last = Crook}}

External links

  • Official Website
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