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Bobby Yazdani is the founder and CEO of Saba Software. Yazdani founded Saba in 1997 and took the company public in 2000. Since [becoming CEO], Yazdani has grown Saba into a US$100+ million business.^[1]

Yazdani is an angel investor whose portfolio includes Clearspring, Dropbox, Google, Sociocast, Shelby TV, Klout, Kissmetrics, Medialets, Webs.com,^[2] Salesforce, Cleversense, HotPrints, Qwiki, 1000memories.com, Bonobos, Masimo, Boticca, Nextbio and SoundHound.^{[citation needed]}

Yazdani holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Career [edit]

Yazdani started Saba in 1997. Saba Learning was the first product; since then, the product line has integrated and expanded into a unified suite of People Cloud Applications delivered as software-as-a-service. Under his leadership, Saba acquired THINQ Learning Solutions^[3] in May 2005, Centra Software^[4] in 2006 and Pedagogue Solutions and Comartis in June 2011.

In 2001, Yazdani was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award^[5]

References [edit]

Articles mentioning Yazdani [edit]

• Newton, Casey. “Salesforce Abuzz Over Social Networking Software.” San Francisco Chronicle. 29 August 2011.
• Carr, David.Social Collaboration: Building a ‘People Cloud.’” InformationWeek “The BrainYard.” 19 August 2011.
• King, Rachel. “Hiring Like It’s 1999.” BusinessWeek. 1 August 2011.
• Hull, Blake. “Radio Show #73: Bobby Yazdani, Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Saba.” Bill Kutik Radio Show Documents. KI OnDemand. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

Articles relating to Yazdani’s investments [edit]

• Rusli, Evelyn M. “Moving Into Social Web, Menlo Ventures Adds Partner.” New York Times’ DealBook. 13 June 2011.
• Kincaid, Jason. “Shelby.tv Raises $1.5 Million to Give You Personalized Channels of Online Video.” TechCrunch. 14 July 2011.
• Schonfeld, Erick. “Facebook Billionaire Eduardo Saverin leads Qwiki’s $8 Million Round.” TechCrunch. 20 January 2011.
• Rao, Leena. “Klout Lands $8.5 Million from Kleiner Perkins and Greycroft to Measure Social Influence.” TechCrunch. 10 January 2011.
• Siegler, MG. “Medialets’ Big Bet on the iPhone Pays Off with a $4 Million Round.” TechCrunch. 12 May 2009.

External links [edit]

• http://www.saba.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saba-Software/217941281551226
• http://twitter.com/#!/SabaSoftware
• http://www.youtube.com/user/SabaSoftwareTV?blend=10&ob=5
• http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bobby-yazdani
• http://people.forbes.com/profile/bobby-yazdani/69509
• http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=243295&ticker=SABA:US
• http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/04/05/tidbits2.html