Alan Safahi

Alan Safahi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, technologist, and futurist whose career spans more than four decades across information technology, telecommunications, and payment processing, and through startups in blockchain, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance. Born and raised in Tehran in an upper-middle-class family — his mother an elementary-school teacher, his father an entrepreneur — he came to the United States as a teenager to attend San Marcos Baptist Academy in Texas, studied in California, and built his life and family in America. Today he is the founder of SoapBox, an AI-powered community platform serving churches in more than 140 languages, and of Safahi Publishing, his independent imprint. He writes from a rare vantage — inside the industry, shipping the very tools he reflects on. He is the author of the nonfiction Image Bearers and the Utopia: The First Awakening trilogy. He lives in California and is the father of five.