Tehran

“If you get a free country and property rights and a court system that's not corrupt, then I think all of us want to invest a lot more very quickly in Tehran. It'd be a lot more prosperous place.”

“My father was a textile merchant, and he was a good entrepreneur, but he loaned money left and right to these so-called friends and family. They didn't give him back the money, and he went bankrupt.”

“It turns out there is a small but thriving tech startup ecosystem seen on the ground in Tehran. Very excited, fired up, actually, interestingly, heavily female tech entrepreneurs, starting companies, tech companies in Iran that are doing everything, e-commerce…”

“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…”

“He went and he spent two weeks on the ground in Tehran and he said there is an absolutely vibrant internet startup scene. Are underground in Tehran, and the kids who are working on these startups are just, like, as excited as can be.”

“There's this amazing effectively underground internet startup ecosystem in Tehran. And he said the founders are exactly the same as the kind of people who are sitting at the Koopa Cafe in downtown Palo Alto. He said, interestingly, he said at least 40% and may…”

“He just went to Iran, ah, after he wrote the book, and he just came back, and it turns out in Tehran, there's a thriving, sort of, underground, high tech startup scene. And there's all these entrepreneurs that want to start all these online businesses”