Vahid Razavi

Vahid Razavi is a proud Iranian-American author and lifelong digital-rights activist and humanitarian. He is the author of two books, The Age of Nepotism and Ethics in Tech and Lack Thereof, and has produced hundreds of videos and events on social issues including ethics in technology, Silicon Valley, regional politics, poverty, war, and social injustice.

He was employed at Amazon Web Services as a Senior Alliances Manager for Big Data and Analytics. Before Amazon he was the CEO of BizCloud®, which was involved in a legal battle with Computer Sciences Corporation - now DXC Technology - over its registered trademark. Earlier he was Director of Channels and Alliances at FAST Search & Transfer (acquired by Microsoft in 2007) and VP of North American Sales and Marketing for Neocase Software.

“This book tells my circuitous and tragicomic journey through Big Tech, as a startup founder and as an employee. While I appreciate the vast creative potential of new technologies, I critique aspects of the industry that I observed that lose sight of human values in the quest for profits and market share.”