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person1999–2015

Omid Kordestani

Disciplines:
advertising
saas/sales
business operations

Summary

Iranian-American technology executive and Google's first chief business officer, who built Google's global advertising sales operation from zero and was employee #11 — later serving as Executive Chairman of Twitter.

Core Contribution

Built Google's advertising sales engine — hiring and training the team that sold AdWords and AdSense to the world — creating the commercial infrastructure that turned Google's technical product into a $150B+ revenue business.

Historical Influences

Larry Page Sergey Brin

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley Business Development TraditionDigital Advertising Industry

Contemporaries & Peers

Sheryl Sandberg Tim Armstrong Eric Schmidt

Minds Influenced

Tim Armstrong

Intellectual Posterity

Google AdWords sales modelGoogle advertising commercial infrastructure

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