This guy @SaeedAmidi, a legendary Silicon Valley investor, rented office space to early-stage founders and took stock instead of cash. Some of them became PayPal and Google.
Saeed Amidi grew up in one of the richest families in Iran. But then the revolution happened, and his family lost everything.
He was studying in the US at the time, and his plan was to go back to Iran and grow the family business. But he couldn't go back, so he had to build something new for his family in the US.
He built a few businesses in California, including bottled water and packaging, co-working spaces, and selling rugs.
He wasn't a tech founder, but he wanted to be close to tech founders. So he started renting his properties and taking stock in the startups, and they became some of the most successful deals in Silicon Valley.
That's the beauty of Silicon Valley. Immigrant founders can succeed. And sometimes you get lucky with a deal that returns over 1000x. That's what makes Silicon Valley optimistic, and it's why people are kind to each other. Because no one knows who's going to build the next Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic.
Plug and Play is now one of the best accelerators in the world. Unlike Y Combinator, they run a lot of offices across many countries, and they invest in and support founders all over the world. They also match enterprises that want to innovate with tech founders, and if the POC works well, they invest in it too.
Saeed is still the person who gets to work first at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, and the person who leaves last.
He was my 7th interviewee, supported by a Korean director in @PlugandPlayTC
Kudüs’ü yönetmeyi hayal eden ve tehditler savuran Türkiye İçişleri Bakanı’na şunu söylüyorum:
Kudüs, Konstantinopolis değildir ve İsrail Devleti de çökmekte olan bir Haçlı İmparatorluğu değildir. İsrail, her türlü tehdide karşı kendini savunma kapasitesini kanıtlamış güçlü ve kararlı bir devlettir.
Kudüs, 3.000 yıldır Yahudi halkının başkentidir ve sonsuza dek İsrail’in başkenti olmaya devam edecektir. Siz ve Erdoğan’ın hayalini kurduğu Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ise çökmüştür ve bir daha asla geri dönmeyecektir.
Ne yazık ki, Türkiye’yi modern bir devlete dönüştürmek için çalışan Atatürk’ün mirasından hiçbir ders çıkarmadınız; aksine, Türkiye’yi yeniden karanlık ve geri kalmış bir döneme sürüklemek için çalışıyorsunuz.
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