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Darian Shirazi

Darian Shirazi currently lives in Berkeley, CA and is the CEO of a stealth startup that was funded in March by Gilman Louie, Peter Thiel, and an unnamed director of a New York-based private equity firm. Before working on his current company, he worked at eBay in high school as an intern and then for almost two years at Facebook while attending the University of California, Berkeley. After leaving Facebook in the fall, he sold his first company, Fotodunk, with his friends to the online music social network iLike.

Posts by Darian Shirazi

Nationalism in the startup world

Darian Shirazi | May 24th, 2007 | 8 Comments »

[Editor's note: Darian Shirazi, 20, caught our attention last year, when he sold his company Fotodunk, to music social network iLike. His piece is especially relevant today, because he was inspired by Facebook's example. Facebook has momentum, and will be making news today at its developers conference.]
In 1830, Eugene Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People [...]

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