John Pappajohn, a Greek immigrant who funded entrepreneurs—and was often mistaken for a pizza guy—has died. He was 94.
Andy Kropa/Invision/Associated Press, a Greek immigrant in Iowa, was a young insurance agent when he heard the self-help authorEmboldened by Mr. Stone’s advice, Mr.
Pappajohn founded his own insurance company in the early 1960s. By the late 1960s, around the age of 40, he was getting bored with insurance. He noticed a Wall Street Journal article about venture capital, then a little-known field, and decided to take up that trade.
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