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The scar catches the dying light first—a crescent beneath Ramtin Naimi’s left eye that vanishes when he smiles, which he does often these days. From the terrace of his Tiburon home, the 34-year-old venture capitalist commands a view that stretches across the entire Bay Area: San Francisco glittering in the center, the Golden Gate Bridge suspended to the right, Berkeley and Oakland pooling to the left. Container ships drift beneath the bridge like bath toys while planes climb from SFO and small yachts chase the last breeze. “It might be the nicest view in the world,” Naimi tells me, sipping a glass of Napa red, which his wife Lizzy notes as a rare indulgence. He’s dressed in his standard uniform: black Saint Laurent cap, t-shirt, and jeans; minus the white Vans he kicked off after arriving home. The Transamerica Pyramid rises from San Francisco’s skyline like a pin, marking the neighborhood where Naimi runs Abstract, his $1.8 billion venture firm. From this vantage point, success appear

The Man With the Hot Hand - Colossus Loading Search Podcasts Invest Like the Best Business Breakdowns Founder’s Field Guide Joys of Compounding Founders 50X Magazine Newsletter About Us Sponsors Subscribe Log in Copyright © 2026 Colossus. All rights reserved. Profile The Man With the Hot Hand The dizzying rise, brief fall, and white-hot resurgence of Abstract’s 34-year-old founder, Ramtin Naimi By Dom Cooke July 2025 Issue 03 PHOTOS BY GABRIELA HASBUN Click here to subscribe to print for your office or home. The scar catches the dying light first —a crescent beneath Ramtin Naimi&#82

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