One year earlier, Doug Leone had given a talk for entrepreneurs at Nozad’s carpet store and had encouraged Nozad to look out for deals that might be interesting.37 After that encounter, Nozad had become Sequoia’s ambassador to the Iranian diaspora in the Valley, a group that included Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and Dara Khosrowshahi, later the boss of Uber.
