Ali Partovi is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of Code.org, iLike, and LinkExchange. He was an early investor in Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, and Uber. Ali grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998.
On this episode, Ali and I discuss:
The GIANT MISTAKE he made in a meeting with Steve Jobs
The not-quite-as-terrible mistake he made when meeting with Jerry Yang of Yahoo!
The challenges of building a business on the Facebook platform
How being an immigrant shaped his career and worldview
Ali is currently the CEO of Neo, a mentorship community and venture fund he established in 2017.
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