Hadi Partovi

Code.org / Payam Music, Founder / CEO

Hadi Partovi is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and the founder and Chairman of Code.org. Born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, he taught himself to code before immigrating to the U.S., later earning a master’s degree in computer science from Harvard. He began his career at Microsoft, founded two startups that were acquired (Tellme Networks and iLike), and went on to advise or invest early in companies like Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, and Uber. In 2013, he and his twin brother launched Code.org, which now reaches 30% of U.S. students, runs the most widely used K–12 CS curriculum platform, and created the global Hour of Code movement that has reached hundreds of millions of students spanning every country in the world. Hadi also serves on the board of directors of Axon Enterprise.