Shayan zadeh biography for kids

          I was born to a middle-class Kurdish family in Iran....

          I was born in Urmia, Iran, to a Kurdish middle-class family.

        1. Zoosk co-founders Alex Mehr and Shayan Zadeh met in Iran as students back in the s.
        2. I was born to a middle-class Kurdish family in Iran.
        3. Born in Newcastle, he has an English degree from Queen Mary, London and after working for the NHS, trained as a journalist with the Press.
        4. Setzer was born in San Diego and was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

          5. Zoosk

          Online dating service

          Zoosk is an online dating service available in 25 languages and in more than 80 countries.[2] The founders of the company are Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, who ran the company until December 2014.[3] After struggles that year, Kelly Steckelberg became the company's new CEO.[4] In July 2019, Zoosk became part of Spark Networks SE.

          History

          Zoosk launched in December 2007. Its co-founders, Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, were the company's original CEOs. They are both Iranian immigrants who migrated to US to continue their education.[5][6] Zadeh and Mehr met as undergraduates at Sharif University of Technology in Iran and travelled to the US together to attend graduate school at the University of Maryland.[7] Zadeh worked at Microsoft after graduating with a master's degree from University of Maryland in computer science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathemat