Hadi Partovi
| Hadi Partovi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1972 Tehran, Iran |
| Residence | USA |
| Education | Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Investor and business executive |
| Years active | 1994 to present |
| Era | Information age |
| Organization | Code.org |
| Known for | Co-founding the companies Tellme Networks and iLike Co-founding non-profit Code.org |
| Title | CEO and founder |
| Relatives |
Majid Khosrowshahi (grandfather) Ali Partovi (brother) |
| Website | code |
Hadi Partovi (born 1972) is an Iranian-American businessperson. He has co-founded companies including Tellme Networks and iLike. Additionally, he was the group program manager for Internet Explorer as well as general manager of MSN at Microsoft and later served as a Senior Vice President at MySpace. Partovi is an angel investor, as well as CEO and co-founder of the non-profit organization Code.org.
Partovi was born in 1972 in Tehran, Iran and has an identical twin brother, Ali. They are the grandchildren of Majid Khosrowshahi, the co-founder of pharmaceutical conglomerate KBC—a company nationalized in 1980 after the Iranian Revolution. The twins’ father was the founding professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology. Partovi and his family left Iran in 1984 for the United States, where his parents worked three different jobs in two different cities to keep them afloat. Since that time, several of Partovi’s relatives went on to found or run major US companies. Partovi attended Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's and master's degrees in computer sciences in 1994.
While employed at Microsoft, Partovi was involved in the development of Internet Explorer, becoming the group program manager for the browser. In 1997, Partovi began work on how web-installed software was issued or updated. He worked with Tom Thai to create the first automatic software downloads and updates, using XML. The first release of this work was in December 1997, as a part of Internet Explorer 4.01. Partovi later led the development of Internet Explorer 5.0. Afterwards, Partovi co-founded Tellme Networks with Mike McCue, his chief rival at Netscape, in 1999. Tellme created software that allowed telephones to access the Internet through voice commands, expanding the range of Internet content that users could access.
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