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Nozad committed to his largest angel investment, Gusto, in 15 minutes
“It's my biggest, single biggest angel investment ever, and when I met Josh, it took me like 15 minutes to commit, and I didn't see even one page of the product he's building”
Nozad's fund was the first investor in Andy Rubin's Danger
“We managed to be his first investor in Danger”
Nozad was one of the first investors in Dropbox
“I actually became one of the first investors in In Dropbox”
Nozad notes his top investments like Dropbox feature Iranian co-founders
“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.”
Nozad funded his first $2M tech fund via carpet sales commissions
“I, we started, he asked me to put, I exactly remember, we started with two million dollars, majority of his money, and he said, you put 10% of it, and this is in the late nineties. I didn't have any money. I said, I don't have it. He said, okay, every month we…”