Shayan Zadeh
CoFounder & CEO, Zoosk, Inc.

Shayan is CEO of Zoosk, the largest social dating destination, where he is busy revolutionizing online dating by leveraging social media. Prior to Zoosk, Shayan spent five years at Microsoft working on a variety of products. He holds an MS in CS from University of Maryland, and an MBA from University of Washington.

Sessions

1:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008

Success: A Survival Guide

Operations
Location: Salon E

Adam Jacob (Opscode), Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ), Brian Moon (dealnews.com), Don MacAskill (SmugMug), John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Michael Halligan (DatacenterJunkie), Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)

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Success comes suddenly, and often means scaling from tens of servers to thousands in a few hours. This panel will explore what happens when you get TechCrunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, and even "Oprahed"... all at once. The focus will be on what the traffic looks like, how you can do to prepare in advance, and what to do when it happens. Read more.