Ramtin Naimi

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Ramtin Naimi - Building Abstract - [Invest Like the Best, EP.435] · 29 Jul 2025 podcast

And they got it to just shy of 6 million of ARR, but highly, highly profitable.

Besides two employees and some hosting fees and some data licenses, there was no expenses to the business whatsoever.

But there are certain founders like him and other people in our portfolio that I point to.

how much you could actually do with just $600,000 or a million dollars.

But the reason I pointed to him is we were raised the exact same way.

We think about things differently, but for two immigrant parents, having kids that have both built things, my brother sold the company for 30 million bucks.

I have a venture capital firm that's just shy of $2 billion in AUM today.

With very humble beginnings, whatever they did instilled something in us, instilled some sort of a chip and a shoulder in us.

But the smartest thing that they had done

which I really give credit to my mom for.

And I don't know if it's specific to Iranian immigrants or other types of immigrants, but my mom was way more focused on us being in the best neighborhoods growing up versus the best house.

And she thought being exposed to what is possible is better than to have a nice house or a big house in a place where you're a big fish in a little pond.

We were the tiniest fish in the biggest pond in the neighborhood that we'd grown up in.

So I had friends whose fathers were the CEO of Visa or the CEO of Blue Shield and lived in these extravagant homes.

So I knew these things existed.

I knew the path to that wasn't just being a doctor, lawyer, and there was other things there.

So I think the best thing that my parents did for me and my brother was exposing us to that.

family.

I have a wife and three kids.

My wife is pretty involved in my business.

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