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Mahbod Moghadam: Founder of Rap Genius and Everipedia
Thanks for being here Maboo, give the readers a 2-sentence pitch about yourself.
Yo yoooo! I am an Iranian dude who is really into crowd-knowledge! I started Genius.com, which tells you the meaning of lyrics, and now Iâve started Everipedia, which tells you the meaning of EVERYTHING! Yeeeee..
What is Everipedia and why should everyone (and everything) on Earth have a page on there?
(Disclaimer: I invested in Everipedia)
Everipedia is the âchill Wikipediaâ. It would be cool, indeed, if someday, EVERYONE/EVERYTHING has a page on thurr. But my immediate fascination with the site arose when the CEO, Sam Kazemian, showed me MY Everipedia page when I was giving a talk at UCLA. I had always really wanted a Wikipedia page, and in 2013 somebody made one about me, but Wikipedia deleted it because they said Iâm not notable enough to deserve it. Isnât that effed up? So when Sam showed me my wiki, I had a âEurekaâ moment where I thought this could be huge! And indeed, itâs growing really fast â already one of the top 7K sites in the U.S.
You also were a founder at Rap Genius, what did you learn there that youâre applying at Everipedia?
Everipedia is trying to follow the âRap Geniusâ model. Pretty much all the legal arrangements between the founders, employees and investors mirrors what happened at Rap Genius. Itâs cool because the sites are quite similar, so I feel like the precedent makes a lot of sense. Of course, a lot of the stuff is not a secret. The true credit goes to Y Combinator (Rap Geniusâ incubator) and Clerky for making startup investing so streamlined and simple. If you think about it, it is a huge legal breakthrough â itâs very exciting that we live in an age where young peeps are routinely forming C-corporations.
Everipedia has done one thing that Rap Genius didnât do tho, because it didnât exist when Rap Genius was getting started â we raised $140K on WeFunder, a crowdfunding platform. I think this is really exciting because over 200 people invested in our WeFunder. Even if they only invested a small amount, Iâm really hoping that all of these folks will consider themselves part of the âEveripedia familyâ and will be helping us grow the site!
Is the Alexa Rank important?
Our Alexa Rank is the main metric we use to gauge our growth, both internally and to investors. Although it is flawed, every metric is flawed. The cool thing about Alexa is that everyone has access to it, and by ranking the sites it lets you compare one site to another. One of my main frustrations, however, is that apps donât get an accurate Alexa rank.
Why does everything you touch blow up?
Jesus loves me homie. Iâve done so many stupid things, and I never get into trouble, I always get away with it. I flirt with disaster and always walk away unscathed. Itâs insane.. I truly canât believe Iâm still even alive, much less ballin and running a company thatâs blowin up.. I solemnly swear, however, that after Everipedia IPOâs, we are going to be giving a lot back to the community. It is a knowledge project, so I think Everipedia.org will find a lot of interesting ways to set up Everipedia-related programs in inner-city schools. We are doing this to teach the kids.
What is the end goal of Everipedia and how are you getting there?
EVERY PROPER NOUN DOGG. Like you said in the first question! Itâs easy to say, but it is dizzying to think about â what if EVERYthing in the entire world had a wiki? Right now, everything has a shitty Google search â you Google search a person/place/whatever, and a robot gives you information. We want Everipedia to become the âcrowdsourced Googleâ â all the worldâs information at your fingertips, delivered through a fun, social community, rather than a robot.
Everipediaâs Culture
I know you guys have a particular set of made up words that you use at Everipedia, what are those and what do they mean?
Haha yeeeee! We call working on the site âEwokingâ, which is named after William Goodwin aka EwokAbDevito, the top-ranked user on Genius.
Our favorite word is âcuckedâ (short for âcuckoldâ) because the whole team is essentially a bunch of cucks.
Weâve started saying âbausâ a lot now too because of the nefarious influence of our Flux Chargers homies (âbausâ is the OFFICIAL word of Flux Ventures..)
The whole Everipedia team consisting of 7 people live and work together in one apartment. What are the pros and cons of that?
It is the only way to build what we are building! Rap Genius started the same way. There is a numinous air to what we are doing at Everipedia right now â essentially, weâre starting a new religion. That means our entire lives must be dedicated to this knowledge project â the only other priority is the gym, which we all hit up every day and we work out very hard. But if you think about it, even the workouts are in the service of Everipedia, since we aim to keep our minds sharp, and our pecks tense..
What one thing does Everipedia do that no other startup is doing?
At most companies, I get frustrated by the staffâs seeming disinterest with their own product. How many CEOs are regularly using their own product? Zuck does it, I know that for a fact, because he personally fb messaged me in 2012. Everipedia is trying to be like Zuck! We are all obsessed with our own product, we be Ewoking 24/7..
How many CEOs are regularly using their own product?
(Read what Dave Liebowitz, Executive director of Everipedia had to say about this)
Do you have any favorite productivity tools like Slack, Asana, etc?
My favorite is Facebook! Everipedia uses Messenger for all of our corporate communication â we donât need Slack! We are waiting for âMessenger for Enterpriseâ to be released, gonna be so dope. The other tool I canât live without is Polymail, which has revolutionized my email! If you donât have it.. GET IT.
Short questions
Favorite EP page?
I love my own page because Iâm in love with myself! Iâm also a big fan of Cardi Bâs page â the all-time most popular page on Everipedia â because sheâs talented and beautiful.
What do you do on your free time?
I work out very hard every day. I go to the Wooden Center. Thug life. Also at night I play a little bit of piano, I am trying to learn the complete keyboard works of Bach.
Whatâs the plan after you exit Everipedia?
I want to get back to chillin! I was âfunemployedâ for a year between Rap Genius and Everipedia and it was an amazing time for me â I would go swimming every day.
Thatâs Maboo: the biggest hype-man and vision-selling person I know. I have never met any founder that talks about and uses his own product as much as he does, which is probably why I have tremendous respect for him. Despite his âfunemploymentâ dreams, I foresee him never retiring but continuing to put out viral ideas out there, so you better invest in his next billion dollar startup. I know I am going to.
Want to be interviewed? Hit me up or drop a comment below.
This guy is insane! very interesting interview!
yeah pretty rad homie
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Real brain power on diapysl. Thanks for that answer!
hey I would love to be interviewed, can you send me the details to my email [email protected] ?
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