He fled Iran for the American Dream, became a millionaire, and could have retired—instead, he built the health tech that saved his father from cancer

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Ardy Arianpour fled Tehran at 6 years old with his family and four suitcases. Forty years later, he’s helped scale a $1 billion acquisition, saved his father’s life with his own technology, and built a health data platform sitting on 150 million patient records.

The 46-year-old founder and CEO of Seqster grew up in San Diego, the city his family landed in when they escaped war in Tehran in 1986.