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By persuading more than half of U.S. states to adopt computer science education policies and running an Hour of Code campaign that has reached hundreds of millions of students across 180 countries, Partovi has made Code.org the most consequential K-12 CS advocacy organization in the world.
Hadi Partovi founded Code.org, the nonprofit whose Hour of Code campaign has reached hundreds of millions of students across more than 180 countries, with over half of U.S.
states adopting computer-science education policies following Code.org's advocacy. Before founding the nonprofit, he was an early angel investor in Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Uber. He serves on the boards of Axon and MNTN and was born in Iran.
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