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Hadi Partovi
@hadip
CEO, Payam Music. Founder #HourOfCode, @Codeorg: 100M students. Early investor: FB, Dropbox, airbnb, Uber, SpaceX. Board of Directors: Axon.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    May 25
    I have a big career announcement: I’m taking my experience teaching computer science to hundreds of millions and connecting it to my lifelong love of piano. Announcing Payam Music: the first nationwide piano school, with a new way of teaching—the Payam Method—endorsed by Hans
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 22, 2021
    As I watch the Afghan evacuations, I remember being left behind in Iran in 1979, when everybody I knew fled the country at a time of revolution and war. My twin brother and I were 6 years old. This is the story of what happened after everybody left:
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    Apr 9, 2022
    Median pay in tech jobs: Snap: $327,710 Google (Alphabet): $295,884 Facebook (Meta): $292,785 All the more reason for public schools to teach computer science so that underserved populations have a chance at these jobs.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 14, 2021
    25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a startup. Here’s the story:
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 22, 2021
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    As the world watches the same old story unfold in Afghanistan, I hope we can all remind ourselves of the immeasurable costs of war, not just in lives destroyed, but in the opportunity that is taken away from children everywhere.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 22, 2021
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    As I think about the children in today’s Afghanistan, I wonder how many millions will go through the same experience and mine, and I wonder if any of them will have a chance to realize their full potential. Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Mar 21, 2019
    Today in Vatican City, Pope Francis joined 3 young women to contribute a line of code to an app, became the first Pope to program a computer, and called on students globally to learn computer science for world peace.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 14, 2021
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    Early on, I learned a critical rule about execution. My boss, Chris Jones, told me: “There’s 3 ways to handle work assigned to you. If you say you’ll do it, do it. If you say you can’t, that’s ok. But if you sign up for work and drop the ball, the team fails. Learn to say no.”
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Jul 15, 2019
    My family fled a war to come to the US after the Iran hostage crisis when I was 11. I remember being bullied to “go home.” Had we “gone home,” I may not have survived the war. And I wouldn’t have started @codeorg, which has helped hundreds of millions of students globally.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Sep 14, 2020
    2020 annual streaming price: Netflix $108 Hulu $72 Youtube Red $120 Disney $84 Harvard $50,420
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Aug 22, 2021
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    My Dad brought home a computer, and with his help my brother and I taught ourselves to code. Decades later, this inspired me to start @codeorg, because not every child has a father who is a physicist and a mother who is a computer scientist. Every child deserves opportunity.
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Dec 9, 2024
    We’re so excited to announce the launch of Code.org in Farsi, to inspire the next generation of Iranian innovators. با افتخار اعلام می‌کنیم که نسخه فارسی کد دات ارگ راه‌اندازی شد تا نسل آینده نوآوران ایرانی را الهام بخشد. #codeorgfarsi #کد_ارگ_فارسی
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Dec 26, 2022
    I’ve always been proud to be an Iranian American immigrant. But to follow Stanford’s new language standards, I would need to call myself an “Iranian US-citizen person-who-immigrated.”  This seems awfully wrong. (Thread)
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    Hadi Partovi
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    Sep 26, 2023
    To my Farsi-speaking friends — at Code.org we’ve begun creating Code.org in Farsi, to help Iranian children globally learn computer science in their native language. We can impact 15 million children, but a critical piece will be to spread the word
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