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Anti-Goals and Knowing What You Don’t Want
Talks about Goals, Life Lessons and Strategy
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Zain Khan
Founder of CitizenX
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Zain Khan is the Founder of CitizenX, an accomplished entrepreneur and investor based in Palo Alto, California. With a background in distributed systems and start-ups, Zain has successfully founded multiple ventures, including CitizenX and OZ Ventures, while also co-founding citizen.vc and making strategic investments in companies like Verious in the Web3/Crypto sector in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Founder Citizen X
2021 - Current
Founder
2006
Founder
2005 - 2014
Invested in ~50 startups On the BOD or Advisor to ~20 startups Exited a few and lost money on some. Its not about the money its about being around brilliant, passionate founders who believe they can change the world. The opportunity to be involved in the startup world is priceless.
Co-Founder
2013
OPS GUY
1999 - 2005
* Known as the "OPS GUY" * Grew Google Corporate IT from 35 employees in 1 office to 10,000+ in 20 offices across the world * Opened Google NYC, Chicago, LA, Seattle, UK, Germany, India, Brazil, Japan, China +++++ * Created processors and best practices at Google that are in place at Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and all over the world I am told. * Tech Stops for everyone!Supplies for Everyone! Home Access and Road Access for everyone! befoer that was a thing.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
IT Manager
1997 - 1999
IT Guy
1995 - 1997