Darian Shirazi

Darian Shirazi
CEO, Fwix

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Darian Shirazi is the CEO & Founder of Fwix, which is organizing the world’s information by location. Prior, he was an early employee on the engineering team at Facebook. Darian studied Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley prior to dropping out to start Fwix. He also advises several early stage startups including Udemy and Mall World on Facebook.

Sessions

4:20pm Wednesday, 04/20/2011
Bootstrapping: Getting to an Open Spaces Database
Business & Strategy Ballroom F
Moderated by:
Tom Coates (Independent )
Panelists:
Darian Shirazi (Fwix), Justin Shaffer (Facebook), Christof Hellmis (Nokia gate5 GmbH), Matt Galligan (SimpleGeo)
Stores, Malls, Bars - there locations are facts. Not owned by anyone, but gathering that data and just as importantly keeping it accurate is expensive. What can a startup do? Can they depend on larger players' APIs? Should they buy the data? Should they depend on their users? Or should companies pool together and just maintain one canonical database of places? Read more.
  • Nokia
  • OnStar
  • Esri
  • AT&T Interactive
  • Google
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • AND Automotive Navigation Data
  • C3 Technologies
  • Ditto
  • Facebook
  • Factual
  • MapQuest
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • NAVTEQ

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