David Charles Daneshgar (born June 18, 1981, in
Westlake Village, California
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) is an American former professional poker player and the co-founder of
BloomNation.com.
Poker
Daneshgar became interested in poker while attending the
University of California, Berkeley, where he taught a pass/not pass course on the ''Statistics and Probability of Gaming''. In 2006, he was ranked the #5 player in the world by ''
Card Player'' magazine.
That year, he won major titles at Borgata Winter Poker Open,
Bicycle Casino Winnin' o' the Green,
and Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
In 2008, he captured his first
World Series of Poker bracelet and the $625,443 cash prize.
, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,400,000.
BloomNation
In 2010, while attending the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Daneshgar co-founded the online floral marketplace
BloomNation
BloomNation is an American online floral marketplace with about 3,500 florists delivering to nearly 5,000 cities across the country. As an “ Etsy-type” site for flowers, customers connect directly with local florists whose flower arrangemen ...
with Farbod Shoraka and Gregg Weisstein. He won a two-day poker tournament in
Los Angeles that gave the company enough seed funding to create a beta version of the marketplace and establish proof of concept.
BloomNation has since raised $1.65 million in seed funding led by
Andreessen Horowitz with participation from
Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures and
CrunchFund
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970) is the American founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in America and elsewhere. Magazines such as ...
.
References
External links
Card Player profileHendon Mob profileWSOP profile
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1981 births
Living people
American poker players
People from Westlake Village, California