After graduating from law school , Moghadam became an attorney at the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf . In 2009 , he agreed to take " deferral time " from the firm , where he was paid a partial salary to take a year off . In August 2009 , Moghadam joined Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory to found Rap Genius , a website that initially allowed users to annotate and interpret song lyrics . Moghadam was included in the 2013 '' Forbes '' 30 Under 30 list along with the other Rap Genius cofounders . In 2014 , Rap Genius rebranded to Genius and expanded to support annotations for news stories , poetry , and other documents . Moghadam was fired from Genius that same year after receiving negative media attention when he used Genius to add annotations to the manifesto written by the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings . His comments were described by the news media as " tasteless and creepy " , and Genius co-founder Lehman said in a statement that the annotations " not only did n't attempt to enhance anyone 's understanding of the text , but went beyond that into gleeful insensitivity and misogyny . " In 2015 , Moghadam met Sam Kazemian and joined him as a retroactive co-founder and the chief community officer of Everipedia , a wiki-based online encyclopedia . Moghadam announced he had resigning from Everipedia on March 21 , 2019 , saying it had become " too corporate " for him . On March 22 , Moghadam joined venture capital company Mucker Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence
2014 Isla Vista killings
2014 Isla Vista killings
Mahbod Moghadam