Touraj Parang, Entrepreneur and Author of “Exit Path”

Today, my guest is Touraj Parang, a veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker and Author of Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game. As a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and M&A expert, he has sat in almost every seat around the table in Silicon Valley since late 1990’s.

Exit Path draws on his decades long unique experience involving hundreds of M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and venture capital investments totaling billions of dollars in aggregate value. Touraj also joined GoDaddy prior to its IPO to help build out corporate and business development teams. He is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer at Serve Robotics, which he helped spin out of Uber, and an Operating Advisor at Pear VC, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. Touraj earned his JD from the Yale Law School and his AB in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.