Krikorian graduated from Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California, and in 1989 earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He then became Senior Vice President at Metis Associates and led its incubation of Mainbrace Corporation.
[3] In 2004 he co-founded Sling Media, a consumer electronics company that builds the Slingbox, with his brother Jason Krikorian.
It was purchased in 2007 by Echostar Communications for $380 million;[7][8] Krikorian remained CEO and a company director until 2009.
He died of a heart attack on August 3, 2016, at the age of 48, after paddleboarding in Pacifica, California.