I've had a complicated path. I grew up in India, in our chalet, in a village. My father was a farmer, and but I was educated, and I was lucky to get a good education. I came to Delhi eventually came to USC University of Southern California here in the US and then to Stanford for graduate school after graduating from Stanford. I have lived in silicon value ever since. So really, as a professional, an product of Silicon Valley on, of course, a citizen of the US now, although, of course, my heritage is all in, even all the way to the very groups off of it.So after that, I joined Silicon Graphics, which was a hard hardware startup company here in the value that I worked as an engineer. And after eating Silicon Graphics, I started a company, S S I I was founder and CEO of a society Iran that for several years, unfortunately, that company was successful. So after selling the company, I didn't work for a few years. I took some time off. I did some crazy things. I learned how to ski. I did a trip to Mount Everest. It not Summit. But I had a blast. I found the lady who is now my wife started my MBA at Wharton. So did everything other than work. Got a nice break and then joined VM where, as an early employees, when I was director of product management for TSX over Yes, x Over was very small product at that time had just been built. I was running that program, unfortunately, did very well became the hard off him, where, in fact, even today it is the heart of what is the business for a $50 billion company everywhere. The company was sold in 2000 for I left and became a venture capitalist in 2000 and five and have been working as a VC ever since. I started Engineering Capital, which is my own farm five years ago, in 2000 and 15 and a human capital. I specialize and focus on seed stage investments in software companies taking technical risk, and I see some of the questions you have, so we're going without in more detail. But I'm a classical VC in many ways. Managed three funds 30 million or 50 million and A 60 million for a total of $140 million in funds, and I, usually the first investor in all of my companies.

Yes. So I am a classical venture capitalists. So I'm taking very high risks, looking for very high rewards in return and willing to take the risk of losing my money. If that is, if that since that comes with the territory within the venture capital field, I focus on companies where there is technical risk, so broad it He divide venture capital into companies when there is technical risk, market risk or consumer risk. So Facebook is an example of a company that consumerist they knew and understood. German market. We like to be light. We want a newsfeed. We want to press the life partner. That was a consumer insight. I focus on companies where there is a technical insight where someone has figured out how to do something new and software that was not possible before we're in the heart even, you know. And so I typically invested in companies where there is technical risk at the seed stage, meaning I'll write you your first million dollar check in the company. And if you were to go to my website engineer in Capital Dar from, I am the first investor in all the companies listed over there

question because that first email is so critical. Since you know, rhetoric, artless like myself, we get inundated with in bombs. I mean, every day we wake up and there's a full inbox moved to go through, and you have to prioritize. You know, there's only so much what we can do. There's only so meetings you can take. And so you are going to make that decision based on that email that's coming in. I did pretty suggest people keep that first email to either one paragraph or one beach get very short, very small. You want to bring out the key elements that will let a person decide whether they want to take a meeting with you. That's all they're going to do in that. In that first, they are not going to make a decision whether to invest or not. All their weakness is this. Does it make sense? Is it Roddy speaking a match for what I am doing? So enough of elements that you want to mention you want to mention the key founders on the key to remember, perhaps into the link toe there, Lincoln or their bio or something element that they also And so it's a graduate of piety or also it provide this war also, and so has had this before something to catch the eye off the person about who is the founder. You then want to include one line or perhaps two lines on what the company does that will tell you what sector there in what space there in the fact, for example, in my case, it could lead to software company. It's in the Bay Area. We have sorted building again. Gays are aware so one or two lines on that and then perhaps one or two lines about what makes you special. What is something different that you have done that you're going to make happen? You may also include how much money you're raising. It's not unusual to know that sometimes people like to keep the flexibility. But that's really all you need to include in that first line. And hopefully by first, email is coming with an introduction of warm introduction from someone who I know to my network. Most wretched capitalists were through networking, so if it is coming from someone who I know and respect and trust their judgment than that, of course massively enhances the chance that I would want