Farhad Mohit
Director · Burning Man Project
Director at Burning Man Project. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 2 organizations on the Form 990 record.
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Farhad Mohit is a prominent serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, serving as a Trustee and Vice Chair of the Farhang Foundation from 2019 to 2024. He is a co-founder of the Farhang Foundation, an Iranian arts and cultural non-profit dedicated to celebrating and promoting Iranian art and culture.
Mohit has founded several successful internet companies, including BizRate.com, Shopzilla, and Flipagram (which was later acquired by ByteDance and became a foundational part of TikTok). Currently, he is the founder and full-time volunteer at GoodParty.org, a platform aimed at empowering independent political candidates, and GiftedSavings.org, a non-profit focused on financial literacy and gifting investment portfolios to high school students.
He also serves on the board of the Burning Man Project and is a TED Patron & Catalyst.
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- MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- Los Angeles (UCLA) · double Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Applied Science and Economics with a specialization in Computing from the University of California
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