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From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was your hypothesis at this point about what was going to be the business model of your company? Did you have one? Farnaz Ronaghi: Yes. In the beginning, there were a lot of companies who started doing MOOCs but in different flavors. There’s Coursera who seemed like it was trying to replace
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year did you start this? When did you start offering the course around which you did the first experiment? Farnaz Ronaghi: Mid-2012. Sramana Mitra: You said you had 30,000 people who came together. Farnaz Ronaghi: In the first Technology Entrepreneurship class, we had 40,000 enrolments. Sramana Mitra: What time window are we
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 1)
Donald Trump wants to restrict immigrants, especially those from Muslim countries, and especially from Iran. Well, read this Iranian entrepreneur’s story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and in what kind of background? Farnaz Ronaghi: I was born in Tehran, Iran. I
