Eren Niazi
| Eren Niazi | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Technology entrepreneur |
| 📆 Years active | 2000 - present |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Christy Niazi |
Eren Niazi is an American serial entrepreneur, investor, and the founder of open source storage (OSS)[1][2][3] and Open Source Evolution.
Early life and career
Eren was born in Sunnyvale, California. His childhood neighbor was Steve Jobs.[4] At the age of 12, Eren started learning how to develop programming code. He didn't attend college.[5] Eren started his career at AMAX Engineering, a server and cluster computing company founded in 1979. In 2000, Eren resigned from AMAX; one year later, he started his own venture.[4]
In 2001, when he was in his early twenties,[6] he started his own venture, Open Source Storage (OSS).[7][8][9][10][11] The first OSS office was located in Santa Clara, California. OSS attracted numerous clients such as Friendster, Facebook, NASA, Yahoo, and the US Army.
In 2004, with the expansion of OSS, the company moved to the former Atari building to be its new headquarters at 1195 Borregas Avenue in Sunnyvale, California, and continued using this location as its headquarters office until 2007.[12]
In 2013, OSS was totally bankrupt but relaunched again by Eren.[13] In 2016, retired NFL star Patrick Willis joined OSS as a business partner, an investor, and executive vice president.[14][15][16] In 2007, OSS was struggling and finally went bankrupt after many setbacks that Eren faced. In April 2018, in association with Jim Truong, Eren founded Open Source Evolution (OSE), an extension of OSS.[17]
Personal life
On April 13th, 2018, Eren’s wife, Christy Niazi, died. Eren has twins, Cydney Christine Niazi and Cyrus Eren Niazi.[18]
References
- ↑ "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com.
- ↑ "OSS: Drone.io, Eren Niazi and NouGit | Tux Machines". www.tuxmachines.org.
- ↑ "Eren Niazi Archives". SD Times.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Apple's Steve Jobs Would See Himself in Tech Pioneer Eren Niazi". TheStreet.com. 29 May 2014. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Childhood" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Cyrgalis, Brett (19 May 2016). "Inside an NFL linebacker's second life as a Silicon Valley stiff". New York Post.
- ↑ "NFL star Patrick Willis is thriving in retirement as a Silicon Valley tech worker". Mashable.
- ↑ Shankland, Stephen. "Server maker expanding double-whammy family". CNET.
- ↑ "Vendor's servers aren't one-size-fits-all". Network World. 20 March 2006.
- ↑ May 5, Conner Forrest in Start-Ups on. "How to close up shop on a failing startup". TechRepublic.
- ↑ "Ex-NFL player Patrick Willis: What leaving football for Silicon Valley taught me". CNBC. 9 September 2016.
- ↑ "Open Source Storage". OSS.
- ↑ "Pioneers in Open Source--Eren Niazi, Part I: the Start of a Movement and the Open-Source Revolution Redefining the Data Center | Linux Journal". Linux Journal.
- ↑ Seamons, Kate (18 November 2016). "He Was a Rich NFL Star. He Got Scammed in Silicon Valley". Newser.
- ↑ "Pizarro: Hold onto your fancy hats for San Jose Derby party May 2". The Mercury News. 22 April 2015.
- ↑ Rodriguez, Salvador (16 December 2016). "Disgraced Silicon Valley Founder Gets Probation for 'Gross and Negligent' Use of a Firearm". Inc.
- ↑ Rodriguez, Salvador (18 November 2016). "How a Serial Con Man Fooled Silicon Valley and Took an NFL Star's Millions". Inc.
- ↑ "Eren Niazi, Part II: the Untold Story | Linux Journal". Linux Journal.
- ↑ Batesville, Inc. "Obituary for Christy (Bruno) Niazi at Alta Vista Mortuary". www.altavistamortuary.com.
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