In 1990, Simple Technology was founded by two brothers from Iran: Manouch Moshayedi and Mike Moshayedi. Using $100,000 of their own savings the brothers created a company that designed and sold computer memory modules. Three years later, Mark Moshayedi (at 38) joined the company as chief operating and technical officer. They are of Iranian (Persian) descent. Mark is related to them. From 1990 to 2007, the company designed and manufactured flash solid-state drives, dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and static random-access memory (SRAM)..