
Hooman Radfar.
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman at Collective
About
San Francisco, California, United StatesHooman is a computer scientist and founder dedicated to helping other founders. He's co-founder and CEO of Collective, Venture Partner at Expa, founder of 10e9, and co-founder of AddThis (acquired by Oracle).
As CEO of Collective, he is responsible for the strategy, growth, and operations for the company. Collective's purpose is to set solopreneurs free to do what they love.
As a founding partner at Expa, he collaborated with the founders and former leadership from Uber, Foursquare, and Twitter to partner with founders building category-defining, new businesses. Hooman also invests in start-ups like Stripe, OpenAI, and SpaceX via his personal investment platform, 10e9. He began his entrepreneurial career as founder and CEO of AddThis. AddThis was acquired by Oracle in 2016. At the time of the acquisition, the platform was used by a network of 15 million web publishers to increase their online traffic to nearly 2B unique viewers worldwide.
Named one of Tech's Best Entrepreneurs in BusinessWeek and one of iMedia's 25 most influential online marketing professionals, Hooman has been featured by NBC, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, and the New York Times. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship and innovation at prominent institutions like Stanford, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.
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Experience
From LinkedIn- Co-Founder, CEO and ChairmanCollective2020 to present
- Venture PartnerExpa2020 to present
- Founding PartnerExpa2014 to 2020
- Founder & Managing Partner10e92013 to present
- Executive Chairman of the BoardAddThis2012 to 2015
- Co-Founder & CEOAddThis2006 to 2012
Education
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science - MS
- University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science & Engineering - BSE
- University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Arts - BA