[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 6, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TRIBUTE TO HONOR THE LIFE OF BLAKE G. KRIKORIAN

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, September 6, 2016

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the extraordinary life 
of Blake G. Krikorian, a Silicon Valley icon who was taken suddenly 
from his family at the young age of 48, after an afternoon of surfing 
in the majestic Pacific Ocean south of San Francisco.
  Blake and his brothers Adam and Jason grew up in the Bay area, and 
Blake attended UCLA where he played water polo. He was well known as 
the CEO of Sling Media, which he founded with his brother Jason, and he 
worked with many other companies. Blake's brother, Adam Krikorian, is 
the coach of the United States Women's Water Polo Team.
  Blake Krikorian can be described in superlatives . . . savvy, 
ebullient, and friend to countless people. He was a mentor, a tinkerer, 
a supporter, an entrepreneur and an angel investor.
  He's been described as a man with a near artistic capability to make 
unobvious connections among widely diverse things and ideas. He had a 
wonderful laugh, he was an amazing friend, a terrific man with child-
like curiosity, brilliant, wise, creative, warm, personable, and always 
helpful.
  Blake Krikorian adored his family and worshiped his wife Cathy and 
their two daughters.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the entire House of Representatives to join me in 
extending our most sincere condolences to the entire family of Blake 
Krikorian and in honoring his extraordinarily productive, generous, and 
all too brief life. We are a better people and a better country because 
he walked with us.

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