Pejman Nozad

Founding Managing Partner, Pear VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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After immigrating from Iran and building relationships with Silicon Valley tech leaders, Nozad co-founded Pear VC with Mar Hershenson in 2013. He has backed notable technology companies at their earliest stages, including DoorDash, Dropbox, AppLovin, Guardant Health, and Gusto.

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Nozad warns waiting for seed funding before quitting is a bad sign

“Typically, if they're waiting to the seed round to be raised before they drop their job, I think it's not a good sign for me, and that, I think this is very obvious among the best founders.”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 47:49 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

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Nozad was the first investor in Andy Rubin's Danger

“I actually was the first investor in Danger in that room. Andy Rubin started Danger, and as you know, he went on and created Android.”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 40:29 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

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Nozad made the introduction to SoftBank for DoorDash's $500 million round

“DoorDash, another amazing Y Combinator company, which actually I met the founder at Y Combinator Demo Day just raised five hundred million dollars, and I made that intro to SoftBank.”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 42:42 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

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Nozad passed on Facebook's Series B investment over office lease terms

“So part of the investment was, ah, they wanted to lease one of our offices on University Avenue, ah, for five years. So we went back and forth, and we didn't agree on the lease terms, and we didn't invest in Facebook.”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 44:17 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

Insight

Investors should not lose outlier founders by overanalyzing minor deal terms

“When you see an exceptional founder, those outliers who, Are actually from Mars. Do, do not overanalyze the situation. Just get on the rocket ship and go. And two never let those extra four cents distract you. You have to see the forest through the trees.”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 44:34 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

Disclosure

Nozad sourced early deals by cold-emailing Persian Stanford CS students

“I remember in, when I started in late nineties and I didn't know how to find founders I was going on Stanford computer science actually school looking at every name that looked Iranian or Persian and sending an email and inviting them for tea. And I ended up i…”

Pejman Nozad Mar 8, 2018 ▶ 1:02:53 Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator

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Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator	Mar 8, 2018	23m

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