Saeed Amidi is the President and CEO of Plug and Play Tech Center. Plug and Play is a large incubator in Sunnyvale, CA which offers a range of services from full service office space to strategic advice to direct investments to start-up companies. In addition, Amidi is the Founding General Partner of Amidzad which he co-founded in 2000. He is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 23 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies.
Amidi has been closely involved with more than twenty new emerging growth companies, of which 2 became public companies (PayPal (acquired by eBay) and Preview Systems).
Saeed Amidi co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. For the past 23 years, he has chaired and spearheaded the operations and management of a number of the Amidi Group entities, growing the aggregate value of its assets under management to over $250M.
The most important learning experience or a surprise for me has been how similar each one of these entrepreneurs are or these start ups are, how they start with the concept they clarify it, crystallize it, build their team, then they all struggle for a little while till the team gels together, then ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Saeed Amidi States Plug and Play Enables Proximity To Entrepreneurs And Potential Investment Opportunities
Saeed Amidi States Personal Definition Of Success Is Impact He Has Been Able To Have On Entrepreneurs
