Fishner-Wolfson: Ken Howery raised Middle East capital for PayPal in 2001
Justin Fishner-Wolfson · Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25) · Dec 23, 2021 · at 13:34
137 Ventures co-founder Justin Fishner-Wolfson recounts how he first met PayPal co-founder Ken Howery prior to joining Founders Fund.
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“I actually met Ken Howery because at that point in time, it was close to the dot com bust and PayPal was still burning. I believe the technical term is a ton of money, and he was in the Middle East raising money because there was money to be raised in the Middle East, and he had come to a conference that was organized by USAID that I had been vaguely involved in helping plan.”
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