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Tech’s Most Unlikely Venture Capitalist

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8 min read Feb 3, 2016 -- In 1992 I was homeless in Silicon Valley. Well, not homeless, exactly. I was working in a yogurt shop and had somehow convinced the owner of the shop to let me sleep, rent-free, in the attic above the store. Once, when I was letting myself in late at night, the police stopped me. They thought I was trying to rob the place. I couldn’t blame them. I probably would have

8 min read Feb 3, 2016 -- In 1992 I was homeless in Silicon Valley. Well, not homeless, exactly. I was working in a yogurt shop and had somehow convinced the owner of the shop to let me sleep, rent-free, in the attic above the store. Once, when I was letting myself in late at night, the police stopped me. They thought I was trying to rob the place. I couldn’t blame them. I probably would have stopped me, too. But I was surviving. A few months earlier, I had left my native Iran and landed in the United States with $700. I couldn’t speak English and knew handful of people in California.…

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