First Generation: Recent Episodes
Darian Shirazi
Darian Shirazi interviews First Generation entrepreneurs and founders on how they and their families came to America and built great companies.
Leore is the founder of Alt and Lob.
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Garry is the founder and managing partner of Initialized Capital.
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Mariano is the founder and CEO of MURAL. Hear how he started his first company out of school in Argentina in the social gaming space which he eventually sold before moving to the US and founding Mural.
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Eren grew up in Eastern Turkey and made his way to Silicon Valley to build two unicorns: Udemy and then Carbon Health.
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Max Levchin is the founder of Affirm and PayPal. Hear about how he escaped Soviet Ukraine and built a new life in Chicago before venturing out to Silicon Valley to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history.
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Bilal Mahmood founded Clearbrain which he sold to Amplitude in 2020. After running product for Amplitude until their IPO this year, Bilal has decided to run for State Assembly in California. Hear his story about growing up as a first generation Pakistani in America.
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Tommy Dang is the founder of Mage and previously worked for Brian Chesky at Airbnb. Hear the story of how his mother escaped Vietnam and came to America in search of a better life.
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Erica is a first generation entrepreneur and founder of Modern Health, a $1B+ company in the mental health space funded by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Kleiner Perkins. Hear about her family’s story and her focus on building ethical-first digital health companies.
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Hooman Radfar is the founder of Collective and a serial entrepreneur/investor. Originally from Pittsburgh and born in London, Hooman is an immigrant from Iranian parents who fled the country following the 1979 Revolution. Hear about his story and thoughts on the future of startups founded by immigrants.
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Guillermo Rauch is the founder of Vercel and talks about growing up in Argentina and how access to the Internet led him to the US.
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Gagan shares his experiences building companies, his family roots, and his optimism about the future for American immigrants.
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