Shaan Puri: 165 University Avenue housed Logitech, PayPal, Google, and Danger
Shaan Puri · The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors · Jan 16, 2025 · at 1:03
Shaan Puri outlines the startup history of the 'Lucky Office' building at 165 University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto.
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“What you're looking at is one six five University Avenue, also known as the Lucky Office, also known as the Karma Building. You might recognize a little better here when you see one of the companies that was started here. So Google was started here. Before Google was started there, PayPal was started there. Before PayPal was started there, Logitech was started there. After Google was started there, a company called Danger was started there, sold for five hundred million to Microsoft by the guy who created Android right after that.”
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