I started Code.org with the dream of bringing computer science education to every school and every student. I'm a technologist at heart. I enjoy building innovative technology products and services that have world-wide impact, as well as advising and investing in startups that do the same.

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• OMG - someone tell this dude to brush his hair.In this video, I talk to Kecia Ray, Ed.D., about the work that Code.org is doing with the European…

  OMG - someone tell this dude to brush his hair.In this video, I talk to Kecia Ray, Ed.D., about the work that Code.org is doing with the European…

  Liked byHadi Partovi

• No political party or single individual should have control of the US voting infrastructure. This absurd problem has a simple solution: VotingWorks —…

  No political party or single individual should have control of the US voting infrastructure. This absurd problem has a simple solution: VotingWorks —…

  Shared byHadi Partovi

• Clearly I'm biased but so great to see my daughter,Sophie, back at children's hospital but this time helping kids rather than them helping her.

  Clearly I'm biased but so great to see my daughter,Sophie, back at children's hospital but this time helping kids rather than them helping her.

  Liked byHadi Partovi

• Founder, CEO

  Code.org

  Sep 2012 - Present13 years 3 months

  Seattle, Washington, United States

  Co-founder of Code.org (http://code.org), a non-profit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. Founder/organizer: Hour of Code global campaign.

• Member Board of Directors

  Axon

  Jul 2010 - Present15 years 5 months

  Axon is a tech company that sells devices and services to law enforcement, with a bold mission to Protect Life, Preserve Truth, and Accelerate Justice. Axon’s products such as non-lethal Taser devices, body cameras, and deescalation training, are designed to make law enforcement more just and more ethical.

• Advisor/Investor

  Various startups

  Jul 1996 - Present29 years 5 months

  I have been an advisor / investor for various startups over the past 10 years.
  
  Startups that are still going: SpaceX, MNTN, Stubhub/Viagogo, Thumbtack, Statsig, Slate Auto, Outreach, ClassPass, LaHaus, Saturn, Dandy, Arrived Homes, Gavel, Clearbrief, The EVERY Company, and others.
  
  Startups that have reached an exit: IPOs: Facebook, airbnb, Uber, DropBox, Boku, OPOWER. Acquisitions: Audax, Bluekai, Codecademy, Edusoft, Familiar, FiveStars, Flixster, IronPort, LinkExchange… Show more

  I have been an advisor / investor for various startups over the past 10 years.
  
  Startups that are still going: SpaceX, MNTN, Stubhub/Viagogo, Thumbtack, Statsig, Slate Auto, Outreach, ClassPass, LaHaus, Saturn, Dandy, Arrived Homes, Gavel, Clearbrief, The EVERY Company, and others.
  
  Startups that have reached an exit: IPOs: Facebook, airbnb, Uber, DropBox, Boku, OPOWER. Acquisitions: Audax, Bluekai, Codecademy, Edusoft, Familiar, FiveStars, Flixster, IronPort, LinkExchange, Livestar, Nervana, Playfab, Snapvine, ThinkFuse, Vamo, Bigfoot Biomedical, VigLink, XL2Web (now Google Spreadsheets), Zappos Show less

• Advisor

  Outreach

  May 2022 - Present3 years 7 months

  Seattle, Washington, United States

• Board Director

  Convoy Inc

  Dec 2015 -May 20226 years 6 months

  Greater Seattle Area

  Convoy is building the world's largest network of trucks, to revolutionize the multi-billion-dollar full-service freight industry with real-time technology. Other investors in Convoy include Greylock / Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Pierre Omidyar, Henry Kravis, Dara Khosrowoshahi, Drew Houston, Kevin Systrom, Allen & Company, and many more.

• Advisor

  Dropbox

  2008 -20157 years

• Advisor

  OPOWER

  2010 -20144 years

• Advisor

  Facebook

  2005 -20127 years

  Greater Seattle Area

• SVP of Technology

  MySpace

  Sep 2009 -Apr 20108 months

  SVP of Technology based in Seattle, managing the iLike sub-team at MySpace, and various related projects

• President / COO

  iLike

  Mar 2006 -Sep 20093 years 7 months

  Official title: "C.O.O". Unofficial title: "Evil Twin". My twin brother Ali Partovi and I jointly run iLike - a website for discovering music with friends. After its debut on Facebook, iLike became the fastest-growing music service on the Web. In 3 years iLike grew to over 60 mm registered users before being acquired by MySpace. Check it out at http://www.iLike.com, or Facebook users see http://www.facebook.com/ilike

• General Manager

  Microsoft

  Dec 2002 -Nov 20053 years

  General Manager of the MSN.com portal business, responsible for all content and home pages on MSN.com. Previously GM of MSN Entertainment business, with responsibility for online distribution of digital music downloads, digital video streaming, movie showtimes, tv showtimes, and celebrity news.

• Vice President

  Tellme Networks

  Apr 1999 -Jul 20012 years 4 months

  As part of the founding team that built Tellme Networks, I recruited a large part of the overall team, built the initial products and services, and set up our customer-deployment team to deliver solutions for AT&T, FedEx, and many others. Tellme was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for roughly $800mm

• Group Program Manager

  Microsoft Internet Explorer team

  Nov 1995 -Apr 19993 years 6 months

  I started out as the "ActiveX Program Manager" on the IE team in 1995 back when it was a ~10 person team. As the overall IE organization grew to 200 people, I grew with it, and by 1999 I was the group program manager for the browser, responsible for the Internet Explorer 5.0 release.

• Harvard University

  B.A. and M.S.Computer Science

  1990 -1994

• Hackley School

  Valedictorian, Highschool Diploma

  1984 -1990

• Zero-footprint telephone application development

  IssuedDecember 17, 2013USPTO 08612925

  A zero-footprint remotely hosted phone application development environment is described. The environment allows a developer to use a standard computer without any specialized software (in some embodiments all that is necessary is a web browser and network access) together with a telephone to develop sophisticated phone applications that use speech recognition and/or touch tone inputs to perform tasks, access web-based information, and/or perform commercial transactions. For example, in… Show more

  A zero-footprint remotely hosted phone application development environment is described. The environment allows a developer to use a standard computer without any specialized software (in some embodiments all that is necessary is a web browser and network access) together with a telephone to develop sophisticated phone applications that use speech recognition and/or touch tone inputs to perform tasks, access web-based information, and/or perform commercial transactions. For example, in preparation for a sales pitch for selling hosting services, a non-programmer can develop a short application appropriate to the target customer. After the pitch, access to the demonstration could be given to the target customer to allow them to more fully develop the application. When the target customer is satisfied with the application, they can have their application live for their actual (as opposed to test users) at a suitable phone number simply by having the hosting provider configure the appropriate access. Once the source code of phone application is identified to the development environment, the developer can use a telephone to immediately call the application on the hosted development environment. Some embodiments support concurrent call flow tracking that allows a developer to observe, using a web browser, the execution of her/his application. A variety of reusable libraries are provided to enable the developer to leverage well-developed libraries for common playback, input, and computational tasks. This focuses the development on application specific logic. Embodiments of the invention simplify the process of defining speech recognition grammars within their applications. Embodiments of the invention support rapid application deployment from the development environment to hosted application deployment to the intended audience. Show less

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• Updating an electronic phonebook over electronic communication networks

  IssuedMay 10, 2011US 7,941,481

  Accessing and updating an electronic phonebook over electronic communications networks, including automatic personalization/login based on caller-ID, and use of voice commands to connect to contacts in the phone book

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• Method and apparatus for electronic commerce using a telephone interface

  IssuedMay 20, 2008US http://www.google.com/patents/US7376586

  A system for e-commerce transactions by phone/voice, using caller-ID to identify callers, connection via HTTP+SSL to transaction systems, and possible "one word" purchase commands

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• System for providing personalized content over a telephone interface to a user according to the corresponding personalization profile including the record of user actions or the record of user behavior

  IssuedFebruary 12, 2008USPTO 07330890

  A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the… Show more

  A method and apparatus for providing personalized information content over telephones is described. The creation of a voice portal is supported by the invention. Embodiments of the invention use telephone identifying information such as the calling party's number to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content is specific to that user based on her/his telephone identifying information and may be further customized based on the current time, current date, the calling party's locales, and/or the calling party's dialect and speech patterns. Also, the telephone identifying information may support targeted advertising, content, and purchasing recommendations specific to that user. The system may use a voice password and/or touch-tone login system when appropriate to distinguish the caller or verify the caller's identity for specific activities. Typically, embodiments of the invention will immediately present a caller personalized content based on her/his profile using the appropriate dialect as well as the caller's preferred content. Profiles can be constructed as the caller uses embodiments of the invention as well as through explicit designation of preferences. For example, the user might specify an existing personalized site to use in building her/his profile. Additionally, new callers may have an initial profile generated based on one or more database lookups for demographic information based on their telephone identifying information. Show less

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• System and method for populating forms with previously used data values

  IssuedMay 8, 2007US 7,216,292

  A system for learning data values over time as they are entered by a user on a form such as a web page form. An Internet web browser can be modified to suggest previously used data values for any form field that is the same as or similar to a previously used form field.

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• Method and apparatus for zero-footprint phone application de

  IssuedNovember 21, 2006US 7,140,004

  System for programming telephony apps using nothing but a web browser + telephone. (the actual telephony platform is run as a service, and the programming commands are entered via the Web browser)

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• System, apparatus and method for discovery of music within a social network

  IssuedAugust 28, 2006US 8572169

  A system to assist in the discovery of music or other content by members of a social network. The present invention permits network members to network together and share information about their music collections and listening habits with a processing platform and with each other. The processing platform processes music library content and playback related data to provide members of the network with tools to discover artists and/or songs that are likely to be of interest to them.

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• Web-to-phone account linking using a linking code for account identification

  IssuedAugust 8, 2006US 7,089,310

  System to allow user login/identity at a Web site to be connected to a voice-portal. (Much like OAuth but connecting a Web site with a telephone-based portal)

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• Method and apparatus for content personalization over a telephone interface

  IssuedOctober 19, 2004US 6,807,574

  A method for providing personalized information (or advertising) over telephones, using caller ID to identify, or create, user profiles for customization. The personalized content may be further customized based on the time, date, or calling party's locale.

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• Client-side system for scheduling delivery of web content and locally managing the web content

  IssuedJuly 15, 2003US 6,594,682

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• Automatic software downloading from a computer network

  IssuedFebruary 12, 2002US 6,347,398

  Methods or systems to automatically download and install code from the internet into the context of an HTML page, to display multimedia or run executeable code.

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• English

  Native or bilingual proficiency

• Farsi

  Native or bilingual proficiency

• Spanish

  Limited working proficiency

• French

  Elementary proficiency

• Castedo Ellerman

  “I count myself very lucky that Hadi was my first manager out of college. I reported to him for most of my time at Microsoft, but left my comfy secure job there to work for him again at his first startup. In all those 25 years since then, only ONE manager was as good as Hadi. I'm glad I started out my career working for and learning from a great manager like Hadi.”

• Paul Goade

  “My summary recommendation in 2 words: Best everything. In detail, not only is he the best entrepreneur, data-driven business creator, and motivating manager, he also cares about bettering the world and does it all with caring, humble confidence.”