After 7 years at Yelp and running its food delivery arm Eat24, Mike Ghaffary is on the hunt for the next marketplaces to become as big as Uber and Airbnb by bizcarson
said she felt like her firm originally missed its chance to grab Ghaffary, a longtime friend, when he switched roles after the acquisition. “We wanted to talk to him right before he started at Social Capital, but missed the opportunity,” she said. “Things happen for a reason.”
“I was in no rush joining a firm for the sake of joining a firm. You treat it almost like a marriage,” Ghaffary says. “It took this great team to pull me off the market, and say ‘This is worth joining!’”
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