Known for their risk-taking and prescient investments, the VC community has reaped tens of billions of dollars and has become the envy of Wall Street. They have enabled the very existence of many of the world's most profitable companies. The closed-doors investment decisions made by venture capitalists have the power to fund new startups and shape our economy, our technology, and our world. "Alpha Girls is reporter Julian Guthrie's powerful account of four women pioneers in the field of venture capital who bucked the system and found ways to survive and thrive in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male-dominated world of Silicon Valley. Until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did he leave? Where did he go? Howwas he able to forget her? The Stationery Shop is a beautiful and timely exploration of devastating loss, unbreakable family bonds, and the overwhelming power of love"Īlpha girls : the women upstarts who took on Silicon Valley's male culture and made the deals of a lifetime With a sorrowful heart, she resigns herself to never seeing him again. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square, but suddenly, violence erupts-a result of the coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future. And, as their romance blossoms, the modest little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer-handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi's poetry-she loses her heart at once. She always feels safe in his dusty store, overflowing with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of soft writing paper. Fakhri's neighborhood book and stationery shop. "Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr.
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