Kian Sandjideh
Kian Sandjideh has a 30+ year career in technology (largely in the video game industry) with a variety of roles in IT, network operations, developer relations, and some minor involvement in intellectual property management and business development. His career in the video game industry began as one of the first employees at one of the first online gaming companies founded in the mid 1990s before moving to Electronic Arts in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Kian also ran his family real estate appraisal company Valorem Appraisal, Inc. from the early to mid-2000s during the early part of the real estate boom. In the mid 2000s he spent five years as part of the founding management team of a startup at the intersection of sports (auto racing) and game technology. After that, he founded two mobile app startups with both reaching MVP stage, but neither gained market traction and both are now defunct. Kian received bachelor’s in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 1992 and joint MBA from Columbia University and UC Berkeley in 2010-2011. He enjoys evaluating, advising, and investing in startups.