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$50 Million Mistakes with Ali Partovi - Ep 129
Ali Partovi is an Iranian-Americanentrepreneur 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…
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