Mahbod Moghadam: Entrepreneur, Maverick, Genius — In No Particular Order!

Shikhar Srivastava
Total Nonsense News
4 min readJan 27, 2017

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TNN has interviewed some pretty important public figures, such as Vin Diesel and Groot, but for the first time in our brief history we had the opportunity to interview a serial entrepreneur who knows how to build great companies and do it while having fun. Exactly our kind of man!

I caught up with Mahbod Moghadam, Co-founder of Everipedia. Everipedia is among the world’s fastest growing wiki sites and Mahbod and his team are building what I believe is the intersection of thug-life and knowledge that has the potential to be among the biggest sites on the Internet.

Here is how it went..

Shikhar: Welcome to TNN, Mahbod. We are always thrilled to have not-so-young but totally charismatic entrepreneurs like yourself on TNN. Having helped build a multi-million dollar company previously, having been featured on many websites, for a wide variety of reasons, and after being interviewed all over the world, how does it feel to finally get the opportunity to be on TNN?

Mahbod: My entire life is utter nonsense, so being on the nonsense news site makes perfect sense! It is truly an honor homie.

Shikhar: Let’s dive right into it. What was your first reaction when you realized that TNN stands for Total Nonsense News and not Trump News Network?

Mahbod: In the U.S. TNN stands for The Nashville Network! It is basically MTV for country music. I’m not really a fan of country, but a lot of times I’ll watch because they have really hot girls on thurr. To paraphrase one of my favorite rap songs ever: “TNN is out for dem pesos”.

Shikhar: What is everipedia and why is it called everipedia and not everypedia?

Mahbod: The name was the decision of our CEO, Sam Kazemian. We were thinking about changing it to “BuzzWiki”. The spelling is an issue (lots of people also spell it “Everpedia”, missing the i), but the good news is that eventually everyone will be coming to the site by googling stuff, so it doesn’t really matter how the name is spelled. Just like Wikipedia, which gets over 90% of its traffic from search.

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Shikhar: If everipedia becomes the biggest site on the Internet, would you consider acquiring your previous venture?

Mahbod: It would be fun to watch the Genius CEO, Tom Lehman, serve Sam. We would get Tom a Princess Leia-style gold bikini, and he can have a chain around his neck and do Sam’s bidding. It would be amazing! It would be especially exciting because I’ve always dreamed of Persians dominating white guys, so I think it would send a very appropriate racial message to the tech community.

Shikhar: Who is the biggest G of all time and why?

Mahbod: 2Pac by far! No one else even comes close. 2Pac was not only an incredible lyricist, but he had perfect abs and a chiseled physique. There is no dichotomy between his perfection of mind and body. That’s why you can’t even compare a fat guy like Notorious BIG or a reprehensibly ugly fellow like Jay Z to Pac. He was so beautiful! I love him.

Shikhar: Does “Mahbod = Mah + Bod = My Body”? If yes, do you secretly worship your body?

Mahbod: It does now! I had never really thought of it that way but yes that is basically my philosophy in a nutshell. I am a big fan of the Greek philosophers, I think things took a wrong turn with Descartes. The meaning of Mahbod in Persian is “Moon Power”, which is also appropriate because I see myself as an Artemis-like figure (goddess of the hunt).

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Shikhar: Warren Buffet has billions. Do you have trillions?

Mahbod: Warren Buffett has a bankrupt soul. He claims to follow Benjamin Graham’s value investing philosophy, but it is a total hoax, he has been doing all sorts of weird, corrupt, non-value investing for decades now. He’s obsessed with eating at McDonald’s and drinking Coca-cola — the poisons of American society. He represents everything that is dishonest and bad about America. Also, he’s never built anything of value. You can’t compare him to his fellow multi-billionaires, Bill Gates and Zuck, who have revolutionized human culture in the course of earning their billions.

Shikhar: According to you, which current technology will be the 21st century equivalent of the transistor 30 years from now?

Mahbod: I’m excited for VR porn.

Shikhar: Thank you for taking the time to be on TNN, Mahbod. And thank you for being so candid. TNN doesn’t get a lot of traffic and quite frankly we don’t care, but when we do get traction it is usually from North Korea. Would you like to say something to our audience?

Mahbod: Much love homie! I LOVED The Interview. Hopefully Kim Jong-un reads this and decides he wants to invest in Everipedia — he is a G. I love Korean BBQ, so I refuse to believe the nation where such delicious meats were invented could possibly be part of the “Axis of Evil”..

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