Age, Biography and Wiki
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan was born on 12 March, 1978 in Tehran, Iran, is a Canadian businessman. Discover Ashkan Karbasfrooshan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?
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12 March, 1978 |
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12 March |
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Tehran, Iran |
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Iran
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He is a member of famous Businessman with the age 46 years old group.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan Height, Weight & Measurements
At 46 years old, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan height not available right now. We will update Ashkan Karbasfrooshan's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ashkan Karbasfrooshan worth at the age of 46 years old? Ashkan Karbasfrooshan’s income source is mostly from being a successful Businessman. He is from Iran. We have estimated Ashkan Karbasfrooshan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan (born 1978) is an Iranian-Canadian author, producer and Internet entrepreneur, founder & CEO of WatchMojo, a digital media company with 50 million subscribers on YouTube.
According to The 10-Year Overnight Success: An Entrepreneur's Manifesto: How WatchMojo Built The Most Successful Media Brand On YouTube, Karbasfrooshan was born in Iran in 1978, moved to Spain with his family in 1983 before immigrating to Canada in 1984 at the age of 6.
He served as teacher's assistant and lectured undergraduate, graduate and PhD students at Concordia from 1998 to 2001 and taught an MBA class on entrepreneurship at McGill's Desautels business school in 2022.
Trilingual in English, French and Farsi, he attended the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, graduating in finance in 1999.
In the early 2000s, he hosted and produced many sports and lifestyle-themed radio shows for Bell Media's TSN 690 (then known as Team 990).
Since, he has produced and hosted many video series and shows, including The Lineup which won a Telly Award.
In 2000, Karbasfrooshan joined Mamma, an early search engine.
Later that year, he joined online men's lifestyle magazine Askmen, leading ad sales, writing a dozen columns and interviewed celebrities including Hugh Hefner, Depeche Mode, Joe Montana, DJ Tiesto, Tony Hawk, Lyor Cohen, Gene Simmons, Tears for Fears, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard & others.
As author, he has written three books: Course to Success: Everything You Need To Succeed Beyond School (2002), The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness (2004), The 10-Year Overnight Success: An Entrepreneurship's Manifesto - How WatchMojo Built the Most Successful Media Brand on YouTube (2016).
As columnist, he has also written on business, management, leadership, history, sports, entertainment, relationships, psychology and been published in TechCrunch, PaidContent, GigaOm, Mediapost, AskMen, Aol, MSN.
He is represented by ICM Entertainment.
In 2005, after News Corp. acquired IGN, which had previously acquired Askmen, Karbasfrooshan founded WatchMojo to produce videos for emerging video platforms like YouTube.
In 2006, News Corp. sued Karbasfrooshan and WatchMojo alleging he had violated his non-competition agreement, though Karbasfrooshan and WatchMojo prevailed.
Throughout the 2010s, Karbasfrooshan wrote about the nascent web video industry for TechCrunch and Mediapost, while speaking at conferences including NATPE, International Cultural Summit, Web Summit, Digital Hollywood, Streaming Media, Advertising Week and Vidcon, where he gave the keynote on YouTube's history to commemorate the video platform's 15 year anniversary.
Karbasfrooshan is an expert on copyright and fair use, writing on practical uses of fair dealing and copyright in fan fiction and commentary works, analyzing how ContentID has been abused by rights holders.
He has invested in tech startups through his investment vehicle, Granicus Group.
The MojoGives effort he started via WatchMojo is a philanthropic initiative to support various charitable causes.
He won the Ernst & Young 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year winner in the Media & Entertainment Category.
Karbasfrooshan is the winner of the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner in the Media & Entertainment Category.
He was also selected by Concordia as one of its Concordia's 50 Under 50 Shaping Tomorrow alumni.
He represented Canada at the 2021 corporate soccer tournament in Dubai.
In 2019, he wrote and produced the Fox in the Henhouse documentary, amongst other projects.
Many of Karbasfrooshan's articles from Askmen, TechCrunch, Mediapost, as well as original business & strategy analysis and commentary on current affairs can be found on the Context Is King website, which is the companion property of the ContextTV YouTube channel where he analyses business history and discusses trends.
