Darian Shirazi was one of Facebook's very first outside hires, joining as a teenager in 2005 and gaining rare firsthand experience in the early days of modern social networking, before founding and running the B2B customer data platform Radius as CEO for several years. He hosts "First Generation," a show interviewing immigrant founders about building companies in America, and is known for his "high-conviction, high-velocity" investing style focused on AI and data businesses where he can draw on his unusual combination of early consumer tech experience and enterprise software operations. Darian Shirazi was one of Facebook's very first outside hires, joining as a teenager in 2005 and gaining rare firsthand experience in the early days of modern social networking, before founding and running the B2B customer data platform Radius as CEO for several years. He hosts "First Generation," a show interviewing immigrant founders about building companies in America, and is known for his "high-conviction, high-velocity" investing style focused on AI and data businesses where he can draw on his unusual combination of early consumer tech experience and enterprise software operations.