I co-founded Code.org with my twin brother with the dream of bringing computer science education to every school and every student. I'm a technologist at heart. I enjoy building disruptive, innovative technology products and services that have world-wide impact, as well as advising and investing in startups that do the same.

Founder, CEO @ Co-founder of Code.org (http://code.org), an education non-profit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code. From September 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Advisor/Investor @ I have been an advisor / investor for various startups over the past 10 years. Startups that are still going: Airbnb, DropBox, Uber, ClassPass, IndieGogo, Change.org, PracticeFusion, FiveStars, Thumbtack, Boku, Viagogo, WideOrbit, Break.com, Farmigo, Hampton Creek, Nervana, VigLink, BrightFarms, Fonality, PaperKarma, Planetary Resources, Prodea Systems, ViaGogo, Playfab, Spare5, HealthSlate and others. Startups that have reachedan exit: IPOs: Facebook, OPOWER. Acquisitions: Audax, Bluekai, LinkExchange, Edusoft, XL2Web (now Google Spreadsheets), IronPort, Zappos, Flixster, Familiar, ThinkFuse, Snapvine, Livestar From July 1996 to Present (19 years 7 months) Board Director @ From July 2010 to Present (5 years 7 months) Advisor @ From 2008 to Present (8 years) Advisor @ From 2010 to Present (6 years) Advisor @ From 2005 to 2012 (7 years) Greater Seattle AreaSVP of Technology @ SVP of Technology based in Seattle, managing the iLike sub-team at MySpace, and various related projects From September 2009 to April 2010 (8 months) President / COO @ Official title: "C.O.O". Unofficial title: "Evil Twin". My twin brother Ali Partovi and I jointly run iLike - a website for discovering music with friends. After its debut on Facebook, iLike became the fastest-growing music service on the Web. In 3 years iLike grew to over 60 mm registered users before being acquired by MySpace. Check it out at http://www.iLike.com, or Facebook users see http://www.facebook.com/ilike From March 2006 to September 2009 (3 years 7 months) General Manager @ General Manager of the MSN.com portal business, responsible for all content and home pages on MSN.com. Previously GM of MSN Entertainment business, with responsibility for online distribution of digital music downloads, digital video streaming, movie showtimes, tv showtimes, and celebrity news. From December 2002 to November 2005 (3 years) Vice President @ As part of the founding team that built Tellme Networks, I recruited a large part of the overall team, built the initial products and services, and set up our customer-deployment team to deliver solutions for AT&T, FedEx, and many others. Tellme was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for roughly $800mm From April 1999 to July 2001 (2 years 4 months) Group Program Manager @ I started out as the "ActiveX Program Manager" on the IE team in 1995 back when it was a ~10 person team. As the overall IE organization grew to 200 people, I grew with it, and by 1999 I was the group program manager for the browser, responsible for the Internet Explorer 5.0 release. From November 1995 to April 1999 (3 years 6 months)

B.A. and M.S., Computer Science @ Harvard University From 1990 to 1994 Highschool Diploma @ Hackley School From 1984 to 1990 Hadi Partovi is skilled in: Leadership, Management, Scalability, Product Management, Recruiting, Product Design, Start-ups, Software, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, Software Project Management, Online Advertising, Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, SaaS