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| birth_name = Darian Alexander Shirazi<br />
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| birth_place = Stanford, California<br />
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| parents = Sharam and Susanne Pari Shirazi<br />
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'''Darian Alexander Shirazi''' (Persian language|Persian: داریان شیرازی, born December 23, 1986) is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist. He currently serves as General Partner at Gradient Ventures<ref>{{Cite web|title=BenchSci Announces Total Funding of $27.2 Million as Gradient Ventures Increases Investment, Helping to Meet Demand for Toronto Company’s AI Drug Discovery Technology|url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/benchsci_announces_total_funding_of_27_2_million_as_gradient_ventures_increases_investment_helping_to_meet_demand_for_toronto_companys_ai_drug_discovery_technology/prweb16397016.htm|access-date=2020-12-30|website=PRWeb}}</ref>,Google's AI-focused<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anna Patterson talks Gradient Ventures, Google’s new AI fund|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2017/07/11/anna-patterson-talks-gradient-ventures-googles-new-ai-fund/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}}</ref> venture fund<ref>{{Cite news|last=Griffith|first=Erin|date=2018-10-20|title=Venture Capitalist: A.I. Hype Still “Has a Ways to Go Up” (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/business/ai-hype-still-has-a-ways-to-go-up.html|access-date=2020-12-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>. Previously, he founded Radius. At age 19, he became the first intern hired by Facebook<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-03|title=What I learned as Facebook's first intern|url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2015/08/03/what-i-learned-as-facebooks-first-intern.html|access-date=2020-12-30|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref>. <br />
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== Career ==<br />
Shirazi was born in 1986 in Stanford, California to Iranian-American parents and grew up in Atherton, California. He is the only child of Sharam and Susanne Pari Shirazi. His father is a serial entrepreneur, known for his involvement with the founding of Zilog<ref>{{Cite web|title=The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs - ACM Queue|url=https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3411759|access-date=2020-12-30|website=queue.acm.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=acmqueue DE May/June 2020 Page 71|url=http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=666784&p=71&pp=1&view=issueViewer|access-date=2020-12-30|website=onlinedigeditions.com|language=en-US}}</ref> and TIBCO Software|TIBCO Software in the 1980s. His mother is a published fiction author<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fiction Book Review: The Fortune Catcher by Susanne Pari, Author, Suzanne Pari, Author Warner Books $21.5 (436p) ISBN 978-0-446-52071-3|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-446-52071-3|access-date=2020-12-30|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref> and recurring op-ed columnist<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pari|first=Susanne|date=2004-06-20|title=LIVES; Talking Him Out of It (Published 2004)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/magazine/lives-talking-him-out-of-it.html|access-date=2020-12-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>. His grandparents founded the Alborz Investment Company prior to the Iranian Revolution which was later nationalized causing his broader family to relocate to the United States in the late 1970s. He is related to Dara Khosrowshahi|Dara and Hassan Khosrowshahi<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uber's CEO Comes From What May Be the World's Most Techie Family|url=https://fortune.com/2017/11/17/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Fortune|language=en}}</ref>.<br />
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At the age of 15, Shirazi interned at eBay as a software test engineer working on various features. In 2005, he joined Facebook as the company's first intern and reported to Mark Zuckerberg. After three years delaying matriculation to the University of California, Berkeley to work at Facebook, Shirazi left Facebook and spent two years months studying Philosophy and Computer Science at Berkeley. In 2010 he dropped out of school to pursue a career in startups. He first advised the founding team at Udemy and became one of the first investors in the company. He is also an early investor in a number of significant companies including Palantir, Carbon Health, Lyft, Osaro, DoorDash, and many others<ref>{{Cite web|title=Darian Shirazi - General Partner @ Gradient Ventures - Crunchbase Person Profile|url=https://www.crunchbase.com/person/darian-shirazi|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Crunchbase|language=en}}</ref>.<br />
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In 2012 he founded Radius which raised $80MM of venture capital and served Fortune 500 customers worldwide<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kim|first=Eugene|title=Facebook’s first intern just landed $50 million from Peter Thiel and other investors|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/radius-darian-shirazi-raises-50-million-2015-7|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Business Insider}}</ref>. In 2019, Radius was acquired by Kabbage<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, the marketing tech firm with a database of 20M small businesses|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2019/09/03/kabbage-acquires-radius-intelligence/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}}</ref> which was subsequently acquired by American Express for $850MM<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amex acquires SoftBank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender|url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/amex-acquires-softbank-backed-kabbage-after-tough-2020-for-the-smb-lender/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}}</ref>.<br />
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In 2019 he joined Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, as General Partner<ref>{{Cite web|title=Team|url=https://www.gradient.com/team/|access-date=2020-12-30|website=Gradient Ventures|language=en}}</ref>. He has since led Seed and Series A investments in dozens of startups. In 2013, he was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=30 under 30 tech|url=https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_tech.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-30|website=www.forbes.com}}</ref>.<br />
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