Panel: The Business of Seed with Andrea Berry, Gilberte Doelle and Angus Mellish
Artin Afsharjavan
1. Artin Afsharjavan
Artin Afsharjavan, one of the world sharpest minds who just didn’t got the reputation deserved. Boy
from a small town in outskirts of California who started his education from a small village school, his
father was a farmer, later he got scholarships regularly and ended up graduating from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
He got appreciated for his extraordinary problem solving capabilities and multitalented personality
throughout his career. He is a science scholar with many research papers published and patented.
Worked in research departments of many private firms and has always got praised for his work there.
He as been a man of commitment and worked with full dedication everywhere he got a chance to work.
Many products for manufacturing of which he has worked for months and years have been able to earn
billions from markets. He got attention of topmost businessmen around the globe for his work and is
offered an awesome salary while other companies are always giving him offers of almost double the
amount he is getting here.
As the time passed, he has saved a lot of money working for others. He decided to start his own
business. We know that science students have done a tremendous job in corporate sector, business
tycoons like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs are worth mentioning here.
Artin started his business with a chain of restaurants at prime locations in United States which he named
after his wife Maria. The business was slow in the beginning but Artin was confident. Maria is his
childhood friend who has always supported him, she reminded him of the time he has to help his father
at work for them to earn enough to survive.
Later as the time passed the restaurants got recognition among people for fresh and delicious food and
great service, the business started to flourish and Artin in the meantime was working on a framework of
the products which he will invest upon. He was carefully going through changing market scenario, and
listing all the expected products prudent enough to invest upon in the coming years.
He worked patiently and waited for the most appropriate moment to start his business so as to get
maximum profit. He never had borrowed lone from any bank and has decided never to go for one. As
the most prominent time for him to start his industry was nearby a sudden mishappening occurred. One
of his restaurants caught fire in night. He tried to claim insurance thinking o it as a gas leakage or
electricity fault but it was of no use. After analyzing the burn patterns it was concluded that fire has
multiple source of initiation. It was like someone has started the fire on purpose.
He got very disappointed by the fact and called a meeting with all the employees of that restaurant and
eventually one of the workers who joined their about a month ago was missing. He filed a police
complaint against him, but it was of no use.