Shervin Pishevar

So I, and this was like when they had the paper with the holes in it, you punch the holes and that, that was how they coded in the eighties. And so I, I got to kind of see that. And then I saw the Apple and, And I begged for an Apple. My mom and dad worked overtime for three months to afford it. Back then it was like $3,000, which was a lot in 1985, 86.

And they bought me my first Apple IIc and I did my first coat on it. And that changed my life. And then later, She secretly put on her credit card a laptop when I was at Berkeley and I didn't have enough money to get a laptop and she put it on her credit card and I always said that she was my angel, my first angel investor, my first believer.

And they bought me my first Apple IIc and I did my first coat on it. And that changed my life. And then later, She secretly put on her credit card a laptop when I was at Berkeley and I didn't have enough money to get a laptop and she put it on her credit card and I always said that she was my angel, my first angel investor, my first believer.

And they bought me my first Apple IIc and I did my first coat on it. And that changed my life. And then later, She secretly put on her credit card a laptop when I was at Berkeley and I didn't have enough money to get a laptop and she put it on her credit card and I always said that she was my angel, my first angel investor, my first believer.

But she really taught me how to dream in color and I'm finding this process of grieving profound in that I see her now in ways that I couldn't see her when she was alive.

But she really taught me how to dream in color and I'm finding this process of grieving profound in that I see her now in ways that I couldn't see her when she was alive.

But she really taught me how to dream in color and I'm finding this process of grieving profound in that I see her now in ways that I couldn't see her when she was alive.

Absolutely. It was a great journey. I started my first company called WebOS senior year of college. And that's when my mom bought me the laptop. And I was working a night job as a security guard to make enough money to start my company. So I had the little LG laptop with a dial-up connection that I was using. While I was in the security job all night working on the startup as well.

Absolutely. It was a great journey. I started my first company called WebOS senior year of college. And that's when my mom bought me the laptop. And I was working a night job as a security guard to make enough money to start my company. So I had the little LG laptop with a dial-up connection that I was using. While I was in the security job all night working on the startup as well.

Absolutely. It was a great journey. I started my first company called WebOS senior year of college. And that's when my mom bought me the laptop. And I was working a night job as a security guard to make enough money to start my company. So I had the little LG laptop with a dial-up connection that I was using. While I was in the security job all night working on the startup as well.

And at WebOS, I started recruiting really young talent. And at the time, the greatest developers on the internet were really young. They were like 15-year-olds like Anthony Castellana, who's the founder of Squarespace.

And at WebOS, I started recruiting really young talent. And at the time, the greatest developers on the internet were really young. They were like 15-year-olds like Anthony Castellana, who's the founder of Squarespace.

And at WebOS, I started recruiting really young talent. And at the time, the greatest developers on the internet were really young. They were like 15-year-olds like Anthony Castellana, who's the founder of Squarespace.

there was this kind of realization that i had an eye for talent and then that led later led to meeting travis many years later and getting that sense of like oh this travis is different how did you meet travis take me to that meeting i met him because uh cheryl sandberg actually was a mentor of mine I was building Facebook apps and iPhone games for one of my first companies, SGN.

there was this kind of realization that i had an eye for talent and then that led later led to meeting travis many years later and getting that sense of like oh this travis is different how did you meet travis take me to that meeting i met him because uh cheryl sandberg actually was a mentor of mine I was building Facebook apps and iPhone games for one of my first companies, SGN.

there was this kind of realization that i had an eye for talent and then that led later led to meeting travis many years later and getting that sense of like oh this travis is different how did you meet travis take me to that meeting i met him because uh cheryl sandberg actually was a mentor of mine I was building Facebook apps and iPhone games for one of my first companies, SGN.

Cheryl read an essay that I wrote about entrepreneurship and reached out to me on her own and was like, hey, could you do lunch? And she had just joined Facebook. And she wanted advice about the app store and what percentage they should charge. And I shared that Apple charges 30%. You could probably charge 30%, which is what they ended up doing. And so we would meet once a quarter.

Cheryl read an essay that I wrote about entrepreneurship and reached out to me on her own and was like, hey, could you do lunch? And she had just joined Facebook. And she wanted advice about the app store and what percentage they should charge. And I shared that Apple charges 30%. You could probably charge 30%, which is what they ended up doing. And so we would meet once a quarter.

Cheryl read an essay that I wrote about entrepreneurship and reached out to me on her own and was like, hey, could you do lunch? And she had just joined Facebook. And she wanted advice about the app store and what percentage they should charge. And I shared that Apple charges 30%. You could probably charge 30%, which is what they ended up doing. And so we would meet once a quarter.

And she was a great mentor. And then I was selling SGN and she told me, Shervin, you should go on a venture. You'll be disruptive. And I was like, I just didn't think I had a seat at the table. But she sent an email to like five top VCs the next day without telling me.