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Then: Karel Baloun's book, "Inside Facebook," mentions an infusion of "brilliant summer interns," including Darian Shirazi, Tiankai "Tank" Liu, and Charles "La" La, who "contributed hundreds of code commits before even getting into college." Indeed, in 2007 Mr. Shirazi told BusinessWeek he met Mr. Zuckerberg a week before his high school graduation and was promptly offered a job. Mr. Shirazi had already been accepted to Berkeley and decided to pursue both paths, simultaneously. For a year-and-a-half, Mr. Shirazi worked as a software engineer while Facebook ballooned from 15 employees up to 250 employees.


Now: In December, 2006, Mr. Shirazi dropped out of Berkeley to cofound a company called Redux that raised $1.65 million in venture capital the following year. Redux offered an app called FlickIM that let users aggregate chat accounts, watch TV, and listen to music within the same window. The company still appears to be in business, although Mr. Shirazi is not listed on its Crunchbase page and does not cite the company in his LinkedIn profile, where his current title is founder and CEO of Fwix, a startup that "organizes the Internet by location." On AngelList, Mr. Shirazi also lists himself as founder in 50cubes.



In his Twitter bio, Mr. Shirazi weighs in decisively on the war of Mexican hot sauces, writing, "cholua [sic] is better than tapatio." Betabeat concurs.



(Photo: Twitter)

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Then: Karel Baloun's book, "Inside Facebook," mentions an infusion of "brilliant summer interns," including Darian Shirazi, Tiankai "Tank" Liu, and Charles "La" La, who "contributed hundreds of code commits before even getting into college." Indeed, in 2007 Mr. Shirazi told BusinessWeek he met Mr. Zuckerberg a week before his high school graduation and was promptly offered a job. Mr. Shirazi had already been accepted to Berkeley and decided to pursue both paths, simultaneously. For a year-and-a-half, Mr. Shirazi worked as a software engineer while Facebook ballooned from 15 employees up to 250 employees.


Now: In December, 2006, Mr. Shirazi dropped out of Berkeley to cofound a company called Redux that raised $1.65 million in venture capital the following year. Redux offered an app called FlickIM that let users aggregate chat accounts, watch TV, and listen to music within the same window. The company still appears to be in business, although Mr. Shirazi is not listed on its Crunchbase page and does not cite the company in his LinkedIn profile, where his current title is founder and CEO of Fwix, a startup that "organizes the Internet by location." On AngelList, Mr. Shirazi also lists himself as founder in 50cubes.



In his Twitter bio, Mr. Shirazi weighs in decisively on the war of Mexican hot sauces, writing, "cholua [sic] is better than tapatio." Betabeat concurs.



(Photo: Twitter)

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