- Dara Khosrowshahi is the former CEO of Expedia who took over Uber as CEO in 2017.
- As CEO, Khosrowshahi is leading the company into its long-awaited IPO, which could value the company as high as $100 billion.
- His long history in tech and familial connections helped prepare Khosrowshahi for running Uber.
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Becoming the CEO of Uber in mid-2017 was just the latest milestone for the 49-year old Dara Khosrowshahi, who has lived an extraordinary life of both hardship and influence.
Khosrowshahi is now firmly in the spotlight at the head of the Valley's most valuable startup — which is going public in the very near future, at a valuation as high as $100 billion — and one that's been under a microscope due to its meteoric growth and its well-chronicled troubles.
Here's the incredible story of Khosrowshahi's journey from refugee to tech mogul:
This is an update to a story originally published in August 2017.
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Dara Khosrowshahi is 49. He was born in Iran, although he is now a US citizen. His last name is pronounced "Cause-Row-Sha-hee."
He was born into a prominent and wealthy family, founders of a major Iranian conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food, distribution. During the Iranian revolution, the company was seized and nationalized by the new government and his extended family fled the country.
Source: Canadian Business
Khosrowshahi arrived in the US when he was nine years old, an Iranian refugee. His family moved in with one of his uncles in Tarrytown, New York, a town with upscale roots on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, 25 miles north of Manhattan. Rockefeller had built a mansion there in 1906.
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