Amin Farhang Los Angeles · —

I run operations for a luxury menswear brand in Los Angeles. Before that, ten years putting people in rooms.

Eighty events, twenty thousand people, on three continents. I am a map nerd, a home cook, and permanently attached to Red Hot Chili Peppers, in a bottle or in my headphones. The globe is the honest version of a résumé. Spin it.

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012026 —
Operations and strategy for a luxury menswear brand
Los Angeles
022023 — 24
Accelerator programs, a venture builder, a master’s degree
San Francisco
032022 — 23
A master’s degree and a very cold first winter
London
Earlier
04 Tehran Ten thousand colleagues, thirty programmes, one payments company 2020 — 22
05 Rasht Where I started, and where the hub was 1996 — 20
Now

What I'm actually doing.

Working
Head of Operations & Strategy at Barabas, a luxury menswear brand in downtown Los Angeles.
Advising
Founder-led companies and small businesses on getting the operating side together — the unglamorous half nobody wants to own. ICA Fund in San Francisco is one of them. There is room for more.
Studying
A doctorate in business administration, started March 2025. Slowly.
Cooking
Badly, enthusiastically, and usually with more chili than anyone asked for.
Work

Places I've been useful.

A pattern I only noticed in hindsight: I keep getting hired into places where something is already running and nobody built the system to hold it. Payments, marketplaces, accelerators, and now apparel.

Run of show — drag to move through the yearsAll

Barabas

Head of Operations & Strategy. Built the operating stack a company past eight figures had been running without: SOPs, demand forecasting, replenishment, executive reporting.
Los Angeles · 2026 —

Mind the Bridge

Innovation advisor. Arrived in the middle of a live acceleration programme and a hackathon that needed two hundred researchers, and got both over the line. With help.
San Francisco · 2024

ICA Fund

Advisor. Coaching under-represented founders through a twelve week growth curriculum.
San Francisco · 2024 —

Digikala

Events and internal communication. Thirty programmes across a ten thousand person marketplace. It won Best Place to Work while I was there.
2021 — 22

ZarinPal

Human resources. Built the hiring process a payments gateway did not have, then hired twenty engineers through it.
2020 — 21

Innovation Station

Co-founder, later board. An innovation hub that ran four years, hosted forty five startups and four hundred freelancers.
2018 — 21

Deevan Hub

Founder. An events company. Ten large events, eight thousand people, everything from sponsor sales to stage management.
2018 — 20
See the portfolio →

All sixteen, with photographs, roles and the numbers as recorded.

20K
Rooms

Ten years of getting people in a room.

An event is a mess with a deadline and an audience. The only way to survive one is to get the right people to agree in advance, write down who does what, and build a run of show that works when you are not standing there.

Which turned out to be the same job I do now. The deadline is just less public.
Events run
People in rooms
Corporate partners
Continents
Startup Grind, chapter events15+ events · 100–200 each 2015 — 17
TEDx University of Guilan6 talks · 30 volunteers 2017
IXD Conference250+ · 8 sessions · 25 crew 2018
Freeland Conference3,000+ · 25 speakers · 40 crew 2018 — 19
HackaTourism100+ · 15 teams · 72 hours 2019
Ignite Tehran100–200 2019
Permanent Beta300 · 10 sessions · 15 speakers 2019
ZarinPod, business podcastHost 2020
DTalk2,000+ · 10 speakers 2022
Nowruz campaign10,000+ 2022
Digikala Cup hackathon1,500+ · 15 hires made 2022
Experience Zone series10+ events · 150+ each 2022 — 23
Terna R&D Hackathon200+ researchers 2024
Scaleup Summit San Francisco8 panels · 5+ verticals 2024
Desafía Demo Day10 startups · 100+ 2024
Occasionally

Somewhere to rant.

I hosted a business podcast, a YouTube channel and rather a lot of live Q&As, and what I actually miss is having somewhere to say the thing out loud. So this is that. No format. No schedule. Not weekly, not monthly, not a series, and there is no framework at the end of it.

Sometimes it will be something that broke at work. Sometimes it will be a thing about how companies are run that has annoyed me for years. Sometimes it will be about chili. It goes out when I have something worth saying and stays quiet when I don't, which is most of the time.

Leave your email if you want it. The only promise I will make is that it will be entertaining.