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Nazanin Daneshwar

General Partner, Angel Invest · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nazanin Daneshvar is an Iranian tech entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of Takhfifan, Iran's leading e-commerce discount and cashback platform. After relocating to Europe, she transitioned into venture capital, backing early-stage tech and AI startups as an investor at Angel Invest.

10statements → 9claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 4.1/5average certainty → 1.9/5average debate potential →

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Nazanin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Daneshwar: US sanctions prevent American VCs from investing in Iranian startups
“Americans are sanctioned, so they are always running around, they are looking at the companies, they are talking to them, etc., I mean, but the fact is when it comes to the real serious story, they just say, oops, sorry, you know, we are Americans, we have to …”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:24 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran

How they sound: speaking style how? →

238 words/min while actually speaking · 14.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Nazanin Daneshwar: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,668 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Nazanin Daneshwar said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
European investors and American executives visit Tehran to explore tech opportunities
“There are already, like, lots of Europeans that have visited our office, they have been in Tehran, there are some of them already in Tehran, they have offices. I even heard, like, from a very famous company that I cannot name, one of their top managers, the Am…”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:51 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Supported
Daneshwar: US sanctions prevent American VCs from investing in Iranian startups
“Americans are sanctioned, so they are always running around, they are looking at the companies, they are talking to them, etc., I mean, but the fact is when it comes to the real serious story, they just say, oops, sorry, you know, we are Americans, we have to …”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:24 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Daneshwar: Takhfifan faced no government barriers launching in Iran
“Well, we didn't have any barrier or any problem, you know, facing from the government side to start a company.”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:49 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Takhfifan grows to over one million customers and 60 employees
“We started as two people, and now we are basically having more than one million customers, and we are operating in seven cities, and we have grown to 60 people.”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:28 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Partly supported
Nearly all Iranian universities now offer entrepreneurship programs
“Now pretty much all the universities have that, but by those years, I mean, just one of the universities had the entrepreneurship field for studying for people.”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:23 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Supported
Daneshwar: Iranians routinely use VPNs to access blocked social media platforms
“Facebook advertisement is closed for Iranians, like Google AdWords as well, but the fact that people here are having the full access to Twitter, to Facebook, and Facebook is blocked by the government as well, but we are going through the VPNs, so everybody is …”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:43 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Daneshwar: Iran's startup ecosystem will mirror Berlin within three to five years
“Well, I mean, to be honest I can already see, like, we are going to be at a super competitive market, like, that the whole idea, like, I remember from Berlin time, when I was living there are still cafes that we were, like, sitting there, and we just said, don…”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:54 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Daneshwar avoids logistics-heavy business models in Iran
“So by that time, I promised to myself, I'm not going to get into another business model that involves logistics,”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:16 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Assertion Supported
Daneshwar: 3G mobile data in Iran costs three dollars monthly
“So you pay three dollars a month and you have a pretty good access to three G, which I'm always using, you know, it's incredible.”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:03 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran
Disclosure
Takhfifan completely eliminated cash-on-delivery payment options
“I'm basically quite delighted to say that like last year, the number of cash and delivery orders were so low that we just canceled the whole payment method. So now we don't do any more cash and delivery. It's just online payment plus like a card payment, ATM p…”
Nazanin Daneshwar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:31 a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | Layering Tech and Culture in Iran Jan 2, 2019 12m
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