Woodstock On Every Block, Coachella On Every Corner. Cyrus is the Founder of Zonez, a public benefit street festival Saas startup focused on establishing a new business model for independent musicians, artists, fashion designers, DJs through scalable artwalks which revitalize cities worldwide similar to the birth of hip-hop in the Bronx or the Summer of Love in SF in the 60s. This could help establish tech/art/retail hubs bringing not only revitalization of the restaurant industry, revenues to bankrupt cities and jobs to lower income communities but the RIGHT type of jobs where people are happy to go to work with personal sustainable life satisfaction.
He has worked for startups funded by the same VC firms who funded the likes of Facebook, Twitter, eBay and Lyft. In 2020, ZONEZ was chosen out of hundreds of applicants to participate in the accelerator program of SoCap, the largest organization of social impact investors and double/triple bottom line enterprises focused on solving societal and environmental challenges through business.
He is also a Certified M&A Advisor/business broker in Silicon Valley focused on social impact ((ESG/UN SDG/GIIN), born and raised in San Francisco, with 22 years combined experience in international residential and commercial real estate sales/finance. He has practiced throughout Northern and Southern California, along with Hawaii and Tokyo as well. In his past life when he had hair, he has played in heavy metal, hip-hop, folk, post-punk bands throughout the Bay Area.