thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It didn’t help that I was vegetarian (wait, didn’t Indians eat turkey…oh wait) and spoke a weird language to my brother at the bus stop. I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.

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