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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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The Future of Image Models Is Multimodal

Ben's Blog

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Ideogram CEO Mohammad Norouzi joins a16z General Partner Jennifer Li to share his story of growing up in Iran, helping build influential text-to-image models at Google, and ultimately cofounding and running Ideogram.

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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary.

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5 Startup Tips From Successful Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Syed Balkhi, Founder of WPBeginner, Optinmonster. Sara Mohammadi, Co-Founder of Eventbox. She helms Eventbox, an online platform for events based in Iran. The venture now hosts regular TEDx events in Iran. ” Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group. Like Musk, Sara Mohammadi is a doer. Go out there.”

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Interview with Everipedia’s Tedde Forselius

Mucker Lab

Interview with my Everipedia Co-founder Theodor Forselius (AKA “Tedde”) by Mahbod Moghadam. One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of my cofounders. Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish.

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The stoic resilience of Israel’s Tech Ecosystem – Welcome to the Middle East

VC Cafe

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Our new, “new normal “ The ceasefire with Hamas will only buy us temporary calm until Iran has re-loaded Hamas for another round. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire. Photo Credit: AFP.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Ad Choices.