Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

A winner of the 2015 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for in the media category, Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder & CEO of WatchMojo, one of the most successful producers of premium video content.


With 25 million subscribers, 15 billion views, 65 billion minutes of watch time all-time and a monthly reach of over 100 million unique consumers, WatchMojo is the largest Canadian YouTube channel and top 20 globally.


Ashkan started his career at one of the original meta-search engines on the Web, Mamma. From there he worked in the online publishing industry where he headed up advertising sales for AskMen. After its sale to News Corp., he launched WatchMojo, which to this day has never raised financing and is profitable since 2011. The company employs over 100 employees in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York City and London.


A prolific writer, he has written thousands of articles on business, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, pop culture, travel and much more. His articles have been published on MSN, AOL, Yahoo!, MediaPost, PaidContent, GigaOm and Tech Crunch and he and has been quoted in Forbes, the BBC, Business Week, CNET, etc.


He is the author of three books: Course to Success: Everything You Need to Succeed Beyond School, The Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness, and the 10-Year Overnight Success: An Entrepreneur's Manifesto - How WatchMojo Built the Most Successful Media Brand on YouTube.