Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is Founder and CEO of WatchMojo.com, one of the leading broadband video content creators, with a library of 5,000 high-quality, professional, premium videos spanning the automotive, comedy, fashion, film, health, lifestyle, music, sports, travel and video game categories.
WatchMojo.com has served 60M streams since 2006, currently generating over 5M streams each month and reaching 20M 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 media companies.
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.
