Ramtin Naimi

But I was in the Bay Area and I wanted to learn more about tech just because it was my backyard and I kept reading about it.

I started cold emailing VCs, angel investors, founders, just anybody I could read about online.

And Silicon Valley is a nice place.

People are pretty receptive to cold emails.

I got a few meetings with individuals and

I just learned more about tech and I wanted to find a way to immerse myself in the ecosystem.

And I just spent more time with individuals.

I wasn't really getting anywhere.

So I was like, if I want to do this for a living, I can't be one foot in, one foot out.

I need to just immerse myself into this entirely.

So I decided to wind down my hedge fund and focus on that.

And the hedge fund did well.

Everybody produced multiples on their investment.

And then I tried to get a job at one of the big venture capital firms.

And I ultimately...

Got a couple of interviews.

And I remember, I look back on this and cringe, but one of the first guys who ever took a meeting with me, I reconnected with recently.

This guy named David Crane.

He runs Google Ventures.

I shot him a cold email and he responded.