Hadi Partovi

I have a big career announcement: I’m taking my experience teaching computer science to hundreds of millions and connecting it to my lifelong love of piano. Announcing Payam Music: the first nationwide piano school, with a new way of teaching—the Payam Method—endorsed by Hans Zimmer and showcased on 60 MINUTES and USA TODAY. With Payam Music, students learn faster, they outperform traditional methods, and they even learn to write their own music. Every year our students rank nationally for their composition and creativity. If you’re worried about kids’ obsession with screens and social media, the solution is to give them a new obsession: piano. ❤️🎹❤️ Proven over 10 years, the learning outcomes of the Payam Method are extraordinary, and so is the team behind it. Besides Hans Zimmer, we’re announcing the support of iconic business leaders including Mark Cuban, Dara Khosrowshahi, Michelle Zatlyn, Drew Houston, and many others. Payam Music is available in cities around the US and expanding rapidly. Our schools teach 1-on-1 lessons, in person and even online. We have limited spots, so if you or your child want to learn piano, sign up now! And if we don’t have a school near you, join our wait list, we’re growing fast. Fall in Love with Piano payammusic.com

USA Men’s National Team beats Bosnia-Herzegovina (even playing shorthanded) in the knockout round, after winning Group D convincingly, all here on home soil! Hosting a World Cup this size is no small lift. Eleven stadiums, more than fifty additional sites, millions of fans moving through stadiums, fan zones and transit hubs across three countries. It takes a lot for all that to go right. Axon is proud to play a role in this success story. Our Dedrone airspace security is protecting every U.S. World Cup stadiums and the sites around them, helping agencies identify and stop potential drone threats, before they become problems. [Link below] Thirty three years ago this company started in a garage in Tucson with one product and a long shot. Watching this team’s run, I see some of that same arc. Long stretches of setbacks and hard work, with nobody watching... and then it finally all comes together in a moment too big to miss. Go USA. #WorldCup2026 #USMNT #GoUSA #ProtectLife

Big things come in small packages. Today, Axon Body Mini is officially available — the ultra-compact camera designed for retail, healthcare, and every frontline role where trust, safety, and real-time support matter most. Panic button. Floor-level location. Real-time translation. All in something you barely feel wearing. This isn’t just smaller — it’s smarter protection for the teams who protect everyone else. Proud to expand the mission: Protect Life, everywhere it’s needed. → Learn more: axon.com/mini #Axon #ProtectLife

More than 75% of nurses experienced workplace violence in the past 12 months. Frontline workers in hospitals, or in any environment where interactions can escalate quickly, need a way to feel safer and more connected. Axon Body Mini was built because every worker deserves to get home safe. It's our commitment to caring for the caregivers, and today it's generally available to them. Read the full announcement: axon.com/newsroom/annou… #CarefortheCaregivers #Axon #ProtectLife

Bodycameras for the frontlines of healthcare and retail mean much more than improving safety. Bodycams can help a nurse or doctor stay focused on patients while AI listens to the conversation and does all the paperwork. In retail, bodycams can track inventory, recognize frequent shoppers, or identify repeat-shoplifters. Huge downstream potential for Axon’s rapidly growing enterprise business.

We can finally say AI isn't killing jobs. A new paper from me, @tryramp, and @RevelioLabs uses firm-level spend and workforce data across 21K U.S. businesses to measure AI's impact on jobs. Firms that adopt AI heavily grow headcount 10% over two years following adoption. Low adopters see no statistically significant change.

The Wall Street Journal profiled Axon this weekend, digging into how a company gets from a two-man garage shop to where we are today. When we built body cameras, half the company thought I was risking a successful company to bet on something nobody wanted. We kept building anyway, because we believed officers and the public both deserved the truth on record. It took longer than anyone expected, but eventually it became obvious. Now it's 60 million hours of footage, and it's just how policing works. I think about that every time we create something new in AI. Nobody believes in a technology until it's already obvious, and by then it's not early anymore. This is also why Axon built XSP for compensation. I'm not the only one here betting on the long run. Every Axon employee who's signed up for it has bet on our team and our commitment to realizing our vision, and I’m proud it’s something we all feel every day at work.

@peymanr_farsi on.soundcloud.com/JYruoWuAXV83Jc…

@hadip Can we get soundcloud also :)

3 years ago I began writing music, inspired by my son Darius who was learning composition at Payam Music, the piano school I now lead. I learned piano during my youth in Iran, as a diversion from the revolution and war outside our home. In the past few years music became my outlet again, for processing and expressing the emotions of change as I closed and opened chapters in my professional and personal life. Today I’m sharing my music publicly, because surely somebody other than my mom and dad will enjoy it. It’s first-drafts, performed at home and recorded on an iPhone, but I decided I like it enough to put if on Spotify and Apple Music. You can find it under my name. 🙈 The last song, Rainbow, is my favorite. I wrote it for @beccaoystila when I first met her. We’re getting married next week. After the rain comes the rainbow. 🌈 open.spotify.com/album/33WQzjmw… music.apple.com/us/album/rainb…

And in the strangest coincidence, @btaylor was on our board then!

Wow, I just learned @elonmusk wanted to call OpenAI “Axon” at roughly the same time that @AxonRick, @Focus_Matcha, and I decided to rename the company from Taser to Axon.

Yes, You’re imposing your opinion on me and others. It doesn’t stick. People can celebrate sports without politics. The vast majority do this, globally. You aren’t “exposing” anything when you take the fringe position that supporting a team equals supporting its theocratic regime. One can oppose the theocratic regime and still cheer for Iran. ☮️

@hadip @POTUS Nobody is forcing you to do anything, just exposing you for what you are!

Proud of team Iran. Despite tremendous pressure from governments and geopolitics, they played with heart, gave all, and hopefully they can still advance. Even as politics divides people, the World Cup brings us all together. ☮️ ❤️ #PeopleOfIran

“Actual people of Iran”? Iran has a very diverse population and diaspora. None of us has a right to choose which are “actual people.” My opinion: most Iranians (like myself) support the soccer team for the country, not for any government. Sports transcends politics. You’re welcome to the opposite view. Thank you for not enforcing it on me. ❤️

@hadip Actual people of Iran are not proud of this team, they are mourning! BTW, most of these players like Taremi, Torabi, etc. have close ties with IRGC and the Beit (Khamenei himself, before he became Kotlet by our great @POTUS):

@HanieSedghi You work at Google, on the payroll, by choice. Do you take personal accountability for every wrong move by Google? Is it fair to blame you? No. Don’t blame me for celebrating soccer. Spread love. ❤️🙏

@hadip I’m sorry but I can’t respect standing along with IR gang. you can’t support people of Iran & celebrate with their oppressors, killers. It’s a clear line and you have crossed it. People are still mourning their children and are in prison. How can you celebrate with their enemy?

@HanieSedghi I don’t see it that way. Since you have followed me you must know I support the people of Iran, and I avoid negative statements. Iran has a thousands-years culture of hospitality, respect, and humility. I appreciate your opinion. I prefer that you respect mine. 🙏❤️

@hadip I have been following you for a long time and honestly I am confused why you are proud of a team that stayed silent during the massacre, supports the regime and wants to gift their goals to their dead supreme leader who killed so many people and oppressed millions. Shame

@shefteck I wrote that right afterwards. The context is clear. Please forgive me if my approach falls so short of what you want that you call it “dancing on the blood of children.” I try to focus on the positive change I hope for, not to denounce others. So I may always disappoint. ❤️

@hadip Am I missing your point? This is nothing about Jan massacre!!! This is a general statement you can make every day. Where is your support for slaughtered people??

@shefteck I posted this right after. When you call this “dancing on the blood of our innocent children,” it makes people doubt your intentions. Iran has a 2000 year history of hospitality, humility, respect. The most beautiful way to honor Iran’s dead is to respect each other. ❤️

@hadip You never posted about Jan massacre. Never ever.

@shefteck I posted to support the people of Iran multiple times in January, so please don’t repeat this false “where were you in January?” line of critique. 🙏 I wish for the people of Iran to have peace, freedom, happiness, and opportunity. If you share my wish, let’s focus there. ❤️

@hadip No thanks. We are still mourning our 40k fallen heroes. The ones you never acknowledged they did exist. Shame is writing all over you.,,

I want the best for the people of Iran. They deserve peace, freedom, and opportunity. ✌️

Dear Fary, thanks for asking me to clarify my political position. My shirt honors the Minab schoolgirls who were killed on Feb 28. I wore it to honor those students and protest their deaths. I also wore it to teach my daughter to be grateful for the life she has and always remember those who are less fortunate. I realize now that my shirt caused some Iranians to think I support the Islamic Republic because the regime uses Minab as propaganda. I don't support any regime, and I speak only for myself. I rarely post about Iran. When I do, I consistently stand with the people, whether they're being killed by American bombs or by their own government. All killing is wrong. A lot of people have asked why I stayed silent about other atrocities. I haven't stayed silent: I spoke out about the internet blackouts and massacre of protestors in January this year, as well as in 2022, 2008, and more. The Minab bombing is the most recent, and it also felt a bit more personal for me. I've spent much of my life supporting education and supporting women and girls. My father and uncle were great professors, and I strive to live up to their legacy. My firm Neo is a school for startup founders, including many incredible women. My brother Hadi built a platform that teaches coding to millions of children worldwide, and I spent significant time and money helping him launch it. We spent extra effort to make it accessible to Iranian children. The bombing of the Minab school broke my heart. I still wake up every night thinking about it and getting emotional. I wonder if any of those boys and girls were learning to code. I think of each little heartbeat that could have had a better future, and I think of the future I want for my own daughter. Nobody supports killing little girls. Yet America has forgotten this atrocity. Most Americans either ignored it, or accepted an excuse that it wasn't our fault, or found some argument to blame it on the regime. We've moved on without reckoning with how U.S. policies are responsible. Living in America, I don't know anybody who supports the Islamic Republic. Most Americans don't care about Iran at all. Those who do generally want freedom for Iran's people. The question is, how? My opinion is that the US war on Iran caused more harm than good. I know others who have good intentions and supported this war. I hope my Minab shirt causes them to introspect.