Career
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. As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,400,000.
In 2010, while attending the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Daneshgar co-founded the online floral marketplace with Farbod Shoraka and Gregg Weisstein. has since raised $1.65 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures and CrunchFund.