Ali Partovi

I, I actually agree with everything you said there, Jason.

The challenge is you are seeing people like Ali Partovi, who's a fantastic investor, who's made a lot of money for his investors, and he's brilliant.

Yeah, I nominated him last year for Investor of the Year, right?

Yeah, come out and say, "We waive our rights, and we don't think it's right." And many great investors support him.

Everybody has painful stories, and I offer an outlet to talk honestly about the lessons learned.

I'm Ali Partovi, and I run Neo, a venture capital fund and mentorship community for startup founders.

Today, I sit down with Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber.

Dara talks about his time at Uber as well as insights about the importance of transparency, courage, and honesty as a leader.

And in the, you know, 10 years since we got started with that, of course, you know, myself and, and that old firm had kind of evolved, um, beyond the campus scouts since then.

But there's now a whole set of infrastructure, whether it be Ali Partovi at Neo with his Scholars program that, um, that identifies the best technical talent and, you know, interviews them and gives them technical challenges, um, to go create a sort of alternative community of really special people.

Um, or whether it be like people like, uh, you know, Corey Levy with the Z Fellows or Josh Browder, right, who systematically go identify these people as early as, like, high school.

Josh has them stay with him in his house.