The world is a funny place. Every once in awhile, you run into someone cut from the same cloth as you. Whenever you find someone like that, i recommend recording a podcast together!
My guest, Li Jiang is a venture capital specialist, angel investor, and a co-owner of the San Francisco Flamethrowers. After leaving investment banking, he moved to Silicon Valley and has amassed a portfolio of angel investments and a family of entrepreneurs to support. As a student, Li founded a student storage and shipping company and grew it into Northwestern University’s largest student company. You’re gonna like this interview. Resources AngelList Syndicates Bill Campbell Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here. Li’s Challenge; Go and try to help someone without any way for them to repay you. Ask them to pay it forward. Connect with Li Medium If you liked this interview, check out previous tech interviews with Robert Scoble, Andy Rachleff, and Mark Leslie. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay 
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Iba Masood founded her first startup at 22 as a fresh college graduate in the United Arab Emirates. The initial goal was to connect recent grads in the Middle East to employers. Now, she and her team have evolved TARA into an Artificial Intelligence platform for recruitment and project management.
Iba was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 class and is a past winner of the MIT Global Business Plan competition, a finalist of MassChallenge and recipient of the Arabian Business “Young Achiever of the Year” award. Gulf Business named Iba one of the 30 most influential individuals under the age of 30 in the Middle East, and she’s the youngest person ever to receive a Cartier Women’s Initiative Award. Attend my one-day conference January 27th in Pittsburgh. Learn more here. Iba’s Challenge; Read a book that is completely outside your area of expertise or comfort zone. Connect with Iba Website If you liked this interview, check out previous interviews with futurist Kevin Kelly on the technological trends shaping the future and virtual reality evangelist Robert Scoble. Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay
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Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. During his tenure as CEO, the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1,500,000,000 per year. In 2000, Veritas was the 10th largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company.
From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start-up companies. His prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and OS programmer. Mark Leslie is a successful retired entrepreneur and continues to be active in the Silicon Valley community. Connect with Mark Resources The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie & Charles A. Holloway Subscribe on iTunes | Stitcher | Overcast | PodBay |
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