Evening keynote by Payam Zamani at the #ebbfdiversity conference in Geneva
Before telling his personal experience he started the session with the Ocean water video.
A 2007 study of the Science Foundation states that a healthy population depends on genes diversity. Nature is telling us that diversity is a must. Loss of diversity threathens species diversity.
Payam has a personal story of diversity, as a member of a minority in Iran, the Baha’is, and as an immigrant to the US without speaking a word of English. He was born in a Baha’i family and their parents always wanted to be pioneers in places where there are not Baha’is , starting from remote location in Iran. In 1987 he moved to Pakistan than to US in 1988.
Diversity was the first thing he noted when he arrived in the US. He joined the College in Modesto, California, where he falled in love with the idea of community building. In 1994 he graduated from the college and loved the idea of launching a business on the Internet. In 1999 he made the AutoWeb IPO lasting till the 2001 Nasdaq crash. Some years later started to reemerge and in 2015 he launched One Planet Ops. A new story, based on his personal learnings, began.