[1] Since retirement, Nazem has spent most of his time on investments, philanthropy, and professional mentoring of young entrepreneurs in the technology field.
Nazem started his technical career in the VLCBX Division at Rolm Corporation, producing large, computer-based telephone switches.
He spent a little over 10 years at Oracle working closely with its CEO, Larry Ellison, on strategic projects like the creation of the “Information Super Highway.” This effort of the early 1990s was meant to bring information and entertainment to consumers’ homes by providing the software platforms for Video Serving and other services to Telcos.
At the time, Lycos, Infoseek and Excite were considered established and more popular internet search engines while Yahoo!
to build the engineering organization, take over site operation, and complete the executive team in preparation for the company's public debut.
grow rapidly and distinguish itself from competitors including a very scalable infrastructure composed of farms of small generic servers with a free operating system (FreeBSD).
entered the crowded email market and quickly added hundreds of millions of users, becoming the most popular mail server.
In this statement, he wrote “After spending the last 26 years in this fast-paced technology industry, I’ve finally decided it's time to slow down.
has played such a significant role in building the Internet into what it is today and I’m incredibly proud to have been a part of such a talented team.”[1] Nazem's dedication to Yahoo and the technical community, as well as his influence and impact, continued long after his retirement.
Now, Nazem spends his time coaching entrepreneurs on technical architecture, market strategy, fundraising, talent development, and mergers and acquisitions.