Nozad notes his top investments like Dropbox feature Iranian co-founders
Pejman Nozad · 20VC: Pejman Nozad: Tech's Most Unlikely VC: From Yoghurt Shop To Investing In Startups Now Worth $20Bn+ · Feb 20, 2017 · at 19:08
Pejman Nozad, Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC, discusses his early deal-sourcing strategy of directly contacting Iranian Stanford PhD students, which led to early investments in major startups.
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“And if you look at my portfolio, your company, some of the best company I've ever invested founders are Iranian, you know, naming it Dropbox, one of them, Sound Hunt, the other one, and then current fund has few amazing Iranian founders.”
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