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Today's Entrepreneur: Mehran Farimani

No. 1 mistake: Give up

Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
July 13, 2012 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/2859

Today's Entrepreneur is Mehran Farimani, founder of Percipo. According to his VEQ, Mehran is good at product management and thecnology design and team motivation.

Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to express themselves by sharing their interests, lessons learned, as well as bits and pieces of their roller-coaster journey.

These profiles give entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase themselves and tell their story. So if you are an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur, or even an aspiring entrepreneur, we'd like to hear from you.


I am a(n):
Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Percipo Inc.

Startups I worked for:
EFI

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I want to make a lasting impact on how people live, work and play.

My favorite startups:
Google, Facebook, Square

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Making believers out of non-believers.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Give up

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
Don't give up, stay focused and positive, don't waste time with people who won't help you with your vision.

(Want to be profiled? Just fill out your Vator profile and we'll find you! Or you can email [email protected])


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Description: Percipo uses machine perception to produce descriptive information about people in photos and videos. Our algorithms estimate attributes ...
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Mehran Farimani
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Percipo Inc.
Bio: Founded Percipo to Make Machines More Human. Built a computer model to learn and estimate a large class of visual data very fast and very...

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