Background
Taghaddos was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated to Boston Massachusetts in 1986.
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Taghaddos was born in Tehran, Iran and emigrated to Boston Massachusetts in 1986.
Taghaddos graduated Babson College in Wellesley, Master of Arts, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in entrepreneurship and marketing. While at Babson, he won the 2003 Business Plan Competition, and received both the 2003 Outstanding Student in Entrepreneurial Activities Award, as well as the 2002 Student Business of the Year Award.
Life & At the age of 16, while attending high school, Taghaddos founded PagerWholesale.com to provide pagers to students online. He later sold the company for an undisclosed amount. In 2000 he founded GotVMail Communications while attending Babson College in Wellesley Massachusetts.
In 2003 Taghaddos and his business partner launched a new telecommunications company under the same brand GotVMail which was rebranded to Grasshopper in 2007.