Sam Modonpour is the founder of esam.ir. He studied computer engineering in Canada and returned to Iran and started to work on an idea of building a company. He wondered if he could make an eBay in Iran. He met Amin Shokouhi who is a computer engineer too and they started working together on Sam’s idea. Their startup, esam.ir, is now a four years old company with 22 employee offering e-commerce solution to Iranian people who cannot use eBay due to inaccessibility to online international payment gateways due to sanctions.