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August 28, 2017 11:19 pm GMT
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Why the rise of Iranian-Americans in tech is no surprise
Longtime Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has put Iranian and Iranian-Americans in the spotlight. In part, that’s because the 48-year-old, just elected to become Uber’s new CEO, fled Iran with his family at age 9 to escape the Iranian Revolution. In part, his ties to other people of Iranian descent in the U.S. tech world are, well, extensive. As the Washington Post noted in an… Read MoreOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CbAOybA7r_w/
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