{"id":274487,"date":"2010-02-04T02:08:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/04\/sgn-founder-shervin-pishevar-gives-silicon-valley-a-rap-anthem\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T02:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:08:28","slug":"sgn-founder-shervin-pishevar-gives-silicon-valley-a-rap-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274487","title":{"rendered":"SGN Founder Shervin Pishevar Gives Silicon Valley A Rap Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shot2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/776ac_siliconvalleyrap.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgn.com\">SGN<\/a> founder and executive chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/shervin-pishevar\">Shervin Pishevar<\/a> is an entrepreneur&#8217;s entrepreneur. Back in 2008, he shared a semi-lucid and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/09\/29\/sgn-founders-rambling-jetlagged-semi-lucid-and-beautiful-post-on-entrepreneurism\/\">beautiful post<\/a> about entrepreneurism that he emailed to friends during a trip to Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Then, late in 2009, he found himself wandering through Europe as part of one of Dave McClure&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/geeksonaplane.com\/\">Geeks On A Plane<\/a> adventures.  After an evening at the BetaHaus in Berlin, Germany, Pishevar put on his iPod and stumbled across Jay-Z&#8217;s song &#8220;A Star Is Born&#8221;.  Inspired, he set upon a creative mission: to create a cover version that captured the spirit of Silicon Valley and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>After penning the lyrics, Pishevar took advantage of the services offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greetbeatz.com\">GreetBeatz<\/a>, a startup that lets you contract professional rappers to sing anything you want (he paired up with Thunda).  And thus Silicon Valley&#8217;s rap anthem was born.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not every entrepreneur is successful with their first startup.  And it appears that they don&#8217;t always nail their first rap song, either.  As you watch the clip below, you may well get the urge to start giggling, perhaps with a cocked eyebrow as you try to get a handle on what you&#8217;re watching.  It&#8217;s a lot to take in, with everything from The Fonz to cameos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/james-hong\">James Hong<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/philip-kaplan\">Phil Kaplan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/joe-greenstein\">Joe Greenstein<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/saar-gur\">Saar Gur<\/a>.   And then there&#8217;s the babies.  Lot of babies.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not entirely sure what emotion Pishevar was trying to elicit, but he sure made me smile (and cringe).  But even if it&#8217;s pretty clear that he should stick to his day job, by making this video Pishevar has shown what Silicon Valley is all about. He&#8217;s cultivated an idea from lyrics jotted on a piece of paper into a full fledged music video. \u00a0He channeled his passion to make something. Plus, he gets bonus points for including the Fonz.<\/p>\n<p>Now say it with me: Platform. Platform. Platform.  H-ayyyyy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/\">CrunchBase Information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/shervin-pishevar\">Shervin Pishevar<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Information provided by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/\">CrunchBase<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5_wWGGlulqJcsUUu5kR54T_u8LQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/776ac_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5_wWGGlulqJcsUUu5kR54T_u8LQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27a60_di\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/27a60_Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57a5d_Techcrunch?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/57a5d_Techcrunch?i=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59ace_Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=ukFbnCGVEh0:NYEolUcT6jM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59ace_Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59ace_ukFbnCGVEh0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/ukFbnCGVEh0\/\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SGN founder and executive chairman Shervin Pishevar is an entrepreneur&#8217;s entrepreneur. Back in 2008, he shared a semi-lucid and beautiful post about entrepreneurism that he emailed to friends during a trip to Eastern Europe. Then, late in 2009, he found himself wandering through Europe as part of one of Dave McClure&#8217;s Geeks On A Plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}