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#1207 Yuri Sagalov On How To Invest In Billion Dollar Startups

The Pomp Podcast

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The Pros and Cons of Being an Engineer Turned Investor

Yuri: I always wanted to be an engineer since I was probably like six years old. And so when I was an undergrad, I'd actually started a company that was like a web hosting company. That was my first foray into entrepreneurship. After grad school, I met another PhD student and he and I started a company together. When it was just an idea, we decided to apply with it to Y Combinator. It was back in 2010 and got accepted, moved on to the Bay Area.

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