Why This Young Venture Capitalist Decided To Start Her Own AI-Powered Company Lore
Forbes Talks
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5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Zehra Naqvi is a 30 Under 30 alum, angel investor and founder of Lore. In this interview with Forbes Associate Editor Alex York, Naqvi discusses her entrepreneurial journey, including founding her first e-commerce company Glo as a teenager in Hong Kong. She also details her experience in venture capital, emphasizing the importance of community and obsession when founding and investing in companies. Naqvi's latest venture, Lore, is a website designed to curate internet content for users based on their interests and obsessions.
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| 0:00.0 | I've passed on a ton of companies where I've met the founder and I've just felt like they're not obsessed with what they're solving. |
| 0:05.0 | And I think that hunger that is brought in from an obsession about a problem or experiencing the problem for years on end, |
| 0:11.0 | that kind of just creates a level of determination that I don't think you can replicate without that obsession. |
| 0:21.6 | Hi everyone, it's Alex York and an associate editor at Forbes, and I am here with Zara |
| 0:25.4 | Akvi today to talk about all you are building as a 30 under 30 alum and now founder of |
| 0:30.5 | lore. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm super excited to have you here. You've had like a crazy career journey, I feel like. Over the past couple years, you've gone from, you know, one industry |
| 0:41.7 | to another, and now you're entering into like the founder space. So I'm really excited to talk about |
| 0:46.8 | the company that you are launching. But before we get into those things, I'd love to know just a little |
| 0:50.9 | bit about you for our viewers to learn about you as like a human first. |
| 0:54.5 | So let me in on like where you grew up, where you're from and kind of, yeah, who you are today. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah. So I was born in Singapore, but I grew up in Hong Kong and that's pretty much where I identify as home. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm ethnically Pakistani. And so it's like I always like to say it's like a huge melting pot of Asia and all of those cultures that they grew up with. |
| 1:11.4 | I think fundamentally when I think about growing up, a huge part of it was obviously my identity and growing up abroad. |
| 1:17.0 | And in that kind of vein, having this like desire to learn more about American culture. |
| 1:21.9 | And it's funny to talk about it now, but like 15 years ago when I was 10, 11. |
| 1:26.0 | The only way you could learn about American culture |
| 1:29.0 | was via like J-14 magazine, Teen Vogue, 17, |
| 1:32.7 | and there was almost a delay that kind of existed within Asia. |
| 1:36.8 | And so when Tumblr came out and Pinterest |
| 1:39.4 | and obviously social media, that to me was like a huge unlock |
| 1:42.3 | because I found communities of fans particularly |
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