Mehran Farimani

Mehran Farimani

Machine Perception geek. Founded Percipo to Make Machines More Human. Proof of concept apps launched with over 4M users today. Ran EFI's core business building award winning imaging products.

San Francisco, California, United States
Member since October 19, 2010
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Education
University of Waterloo , MS , System Design Engineering
University of Waterloo , BS , Mathematics
I am a(n):

Entrepreneur

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, 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/innovators 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.

Full 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 well. Proof of concept apps launched with over 4M users today.


I ran EFI's core business building award winning imaging products and helped make the company a ubiquitos name in the printing industry.


Built statistical models to help traders find buy/sell opportunities. System still in use helping gifted traders beat the market, making a ton of money.


Built a first of its kind multimedia conferencing system for Bell Canada. They didn't make any money from it! But it was a great system, they used it internally a lot, and I learned a lot from it.


Wrote my thesis on optimal multimedia communications architectures and developed the first application sharing layer for Windows that let you share Windows "applications" over modem lines--wow that was way back!