Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is Founder and CEO of WatchMojo.com, one of the leading video content creators, covering the people, places and trends that you care about across the automotive, comedy, fashion, film, health, lifestyle, music, sports, travel and video game categories.

The company's library of 7,000 high-quality, professional, premium videos has served 750M streams since 2006, currently generating over 25M streams each month and reaching 40M consumers each month in the digital out of home signage market.

Having funded the company himself, the company has bootstrapped its way to become one of the few new media content companies that commands guaranteed, recurring, licensing revenues from other ...More media companies. WatchMojo was profitable in 2011.

Previously, Ashkan worked in the search market in 2000 and then served as AskMen's VP of ad sales from 2000 to 2005, until the acquisition by IGN Entertainment/Fox Interactive Media.

A finance graduate from one of the top colleges in the nation.

He is the author of Course to Success: Everything You Need to Succeed Beyond School and The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness. His articles have been published on MSN, AOL and Yahoo! and has been quoted in, or linked from Forbes, Barron's, Yahoo! Finance, Business Week, CNET, MSN Money, the Wall Street Journal's All Things D., LA Times, Boston.com, PBS, TheStreet.com, Marketwatch, Tech Crunch, Giga Om, Paid Content, the BBC and numerous other publications and programs.

Ashkan authors the http://www.HipMojo.com blog which sites at the convergence of technology, media and investing and publishes a weekly column on TechCrunch and MediaPost.