🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D.,

Founder|3xFounder|6xBOD|VC|Peak Performance Executive Coach| X-Cultural Clinical Psychologist|@PishevarHaynes|X-Faculty @Georgetown @NIH

[The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show @clayandbuck]

.@shervin to @ClayTravis and @BuckSexton: "This is a historic moment for all Iranians. What we're hearing on a daily basis is that Iranians are cheering from the balconies as this precision liberation campaign is proceeding."

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

We are all focused on the message of what the people are asking & died for in Iran to avoid a vacuum. @PahlaviReza @shervin @theallinpod @Jason thank you for this iconic interview as this will change the history of the Middle East & Iran to be a vibrant & productive again!

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

🚨INTERVIEW: Exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi

Reza Pahlavi and Shervin Pishevar join Jason to discuss:

-- The fight for Iran's freedom

-- Trump's surrender conditions

-- Transition plan, is democracy a possibility?

-- Future of the Middle East

(0:00) Jason intros Prince Reza Pahlavi

(1:09) Pahlavi's take on the war and vision for Iran's future, Democracy, and return

(8:53) Trump's surrender conditions, core principles, role in transition and potential leadership

(17:14) Thoughts on the people and spirit of Iran

(21:33) Shervin Pishevar joins: thoughts on the current regime killing 40k+ protestors, future of the Middle East

(33:59) Future leader and government of Iran, plan for transition

@shervin @PahlaviReza

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

🦄 Proud of you @shervin and all the founders, angel investors, and VC you have supported and helped bring in deals with you, especially as an ally to so many women and underrepresented. Too many to tag!

[Nicole DeTommaso 🪄 @nic_detommaso]

A Stanford professor analyzed 1,000's of angel investments to find out who's had the MOST unicorns.

The results are fascinating.

- David Morin tops the list with 23 unicorns
- Peter Thiel and Lee Linden follow with 21 each
- David Sacks at 20
- Marc Benioff at 19

A few things that stand out:

1) Almost every top angel was a founder or exec at a large tech company first. The clear signal here - they were mostly operators who earned their access.

2) Many co-invested together repeatedly. Thiel, Sacks, and Levchin all overlapped at PayPal and went on to back the same unicorns (Facebook, Airbnb, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX).

3) No women appear in the top 50. Sad.

4) The entry threshold to make this list is 9 unicorns (nuts!). The average unicorns across the top 50 is 13 (more nuts!).

I share this for folks to have inspiration to angel invest themselves!

There has NEVER been a better time - we are at a major tech inflection point.

If you're thinking about angel investing and forming angel syndicates, you should check out Verivend. Automated capital calls, one-click funding for co-investors, real-time visibility into who's in. Seamless software with a great team to hold your hand through it.

Try it yourself: https://t.co/qZ4U3OB2AY

Full credit to Ilya Strebulaev and his team at the Stanford for this research.

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@bunsen Welcome home @bunsen! You and the fam were missed 💞

[Petras Austrevicius @petras_petras]

The Iranian people, not Mullahs or former family Shah family, have the right to political change and self-determination.#FreeIran

[FR_Ceramicist @FR_Ceramicist]

@Europarl_EN As a European of Iranian descent & as a human being, I find it unacceptable that the EU continues diplomatic relations with a savage regime responsible for the #IranMassacre!
Neutrality is complicity.

SHUT THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC EMBASSIES IN THE EU! NOW!
@kajakallas @EP_President

[European Parliament @Europarl_EN]

🔴 Tomorrow afternoon.

Parliament will debate the brutal violence in Iran, where authorities have used lethal force against protesters.

Watch the debate live on this account.

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

Thank you @Madonna for being the voice of the 90M Iranians in Iran and the many thousand in the Diaspora unable to live in a free country.

[Madonna @Madonna]

Hold Tight ………. I cannot think of a more relevant phrase than this as we enter the year of the Fire Horse!  As I reflect on my time in Morocco over the holidays I think of all the people in IRAN who are fighting a much needed, Revolution and willing to die for what they believe in.
We take so much for granted
Myself included. The freedom to travel the world. To wear what I want to wear.
To ride a horse across the desert. To speak  Freely and not be silenced by punishment, torture, and possibly death.
To sing. To dance. To choose my spiritual path, not someone else’s.. The women of Iran do not have this freedom. I stand with them. The people of Iran have not known freedom for centuries I cannot claim to truly know the suffering  that has been endured  but my thoughts and prayers are with the people of Iran.
The time is now. Hold Tight!
I stand with Iran. Let their voices be heard..
FREE IRAN! 🇮🇷

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

💚🤍❤️🗽There is a path forward with our war to find peace in the mid east! The time is now!!

[Shervin @shervin]

A Message to Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu. Please help spread this. This is critical hours right now decisions are being made.

A Moment That Will Define History

What Israel does in the coming days will echo for generations not only in strategy, but in memory.

Iranians are being massacred in the streets for demanding the most basic human right: freedom. If Israel remains on the sidelines while executions and mass killings continue, it will shape how 92 million Iranians remember the Jewish state for decades to come.

But if Israel acts, consistent with the Prime Minister’s own words, to help Iranians remove the regime that has occupied their country for 47 years, something extraordinary becomes possible:
a historic biblical Israeli–Iranian alliance rooted not in convenience, but in shared civilizational memory.

Persians do not ask to be saved.
They never have.

They ask only that the instruments of mass slaughter be removed so they may liberate themselves.

This is not a call for occupation.
Not for boots on the ground.
Not for war against Iran.

It is a call to eliminate the head of the snake, the command centers, military depots being used to mow down unarmed civilians, so the Iranian people can finish what they have already courageously begun.

Twelve thousand Iranians were killed in forty-eight hours this week. That is a murder every 14.4 seconds, for two days straight.

Iran has been turned into an extermination ground by an occupying regime that fears one thing above all else: Persian resilience and Persian cultural memory.

History will remember whether Israel stood aside or stood with a people reclaiming their own civilization.

If Israel chooses the latter, a future shaped by the Cyrus Accords becomes possible:
security cooperation, economic partnership, regional stability, and a rekindled and forged bond between Persians and Jews that stretches back 2,500 years from when Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from slavery, returned them to their homeland and rebuilt their temples and protected their human right to worship their religion.

You can be the modern Cyrus the Great.

The decision will define your legacy for thousands of years.

[Shervin @shervin]

My Fox Interview this morning with @MariaBartiromo. Please share. The time is act is now.

https://t.co/zUnQxWAVzD

[Shervin @shervin]

Did a 20 minute deep dive on Iran on @tbpn

[Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files @AmanpourPod]

“Iran was my home”

As #Iran faces an internet blackout of over 100 hours, @amanpour emotionally reflects on the protests — and the challenge of staying objective when the story is deeply personal

Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on @globalplayer 🎧

[Reuters @Reuters]

Breaking: The US military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two US officials told Reuters https://t.co/SUQ4yPRgmZ

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

So she’s divorcing Barack.

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@rrhoover @nimanojoumi

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@paulbz Re: having humility to role up your sleeve...I learned from a White House Chief of Staff- the importance of having a plunger in all bathrooms during events & the willingness to go the extra distance to anticipate problems to avoid having roll up your sleeve is also a key skill😂

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@paulbz Agreed! What it takes to be an effective CoS is problem solving/prevention skills. As CoS in a VC firm, it was useful to have research/clinical psychology training for diligence/risk assessment of investments/people/events & advances for travel/events for frictionless operations.

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@APEntertainment Great reminders of the importance of daily coping strategies to build our resilience to environmental stressors! As a clinical psychologist & co-founder of cognitive behavioral executive coaching platform @CoachEraTech-asks you to examine your values/priorities in daily decisions

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

Have you examined what are your unconventional self- care and healing practices? Let's share and help with new ideas! I'll post mine at @CoachEraTech

[AP Entertainment @APEntertainment]

Los Angeles' favorite therapists are returning for a new season of "Shrinking" on Apple TV+. But how do the cast and crew get their own therapy? Watch as they reveal their favorite forms of unconventional self-care and healing.

[🇮🇷 🗽Dr. Bita Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., @DrSarahHaynes]

@shervin @alliekmiller Yes, @alliekmiller is brilliant and has been an expert in AI.