By Annie Georgia Greenberg, Photographed by Maia Harms

Have you made any big purchases?
Mahbod: "We're not about consuming, you know, we're about putting money into the site, specifically, the pockets of the people working on the site. You buy a nice Audi, and that's nice for 36 months, or 39 months, but the site's going to last for 3,900,000 years.
Where do you see the site going? Obviously, it will live on in infamy for all eternity, but specifically, where is your growth going? What other territories are you planning to cover? Politics?
Mahbod: "A lot of geniuses blown' up — one of my professors from Stanford Law explained the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and then he jumped over to some Salt 'n' Peppa. Eventually, we'll have a site that explains every new law that comes out, in every country. Or BibleGenius — we could get some religious adherents."
Ilan: "But, also the verified artist thing — soon it's going to expand to anytime you want to hear what some famous person, artist, or relevant reader has to say about a book, a new editorial in the New York Times. What we can't wait for is to hear 50 Cent explain the book of Job."



















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