Mahbod Moghadam

Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor, passed away in March 2024 at age 41 owing to “complications from a recurring brain tumor.” Moghadam was most recently living in Los Angeles, where, after spending roughly 20 months with the venture firm Mucker Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. After graduating from Yale and then Stanford Law School, he became a lawyer just as the economy was crashing in 2008. Moghadam later co-founded Everipedia, a decentralized, blockchain-based encyclopedia that in 2022 was renamed IQ.wiki. In 2021, Genius sold for $80 million – less than half of what it raised from venture investors – to a holding company.