Touraj is a veteran Silicon Valley dealmaker. He is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and M&A expert who has sat in almost every seat around the table structuring and negotiating strategic transactions since late 1990’s, including as a corporate attorney at legal powerhouses WSGR and O’Melveny & Myers.

He has been a founder, executive, and trusted advisor to several fast-growing technology startups with exits to LinkedIn, Instacart, Vistaprint, Postmates, and Amplitude among others. He has also spent nearly a decade on the acquirer side of M&A deals as a corporate development executive at Webs and GoDaddy.

In his new book Exit Path, Touraj draws on his decades long unique experience involving his startups including Jaxtr, UpCounsel, and Lox, as well as hundreds of M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and venture capital investments totaling billions of dollars in aggregate value. He is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer at Serve Robotics, which he helped spin out of Uber, and an Operating Advisor at Pear VC, an early-stage venture capital firm (early investor in DoorDash, Gusto, Branch, Aurora Solar, etc), where he enjoys collaborating with and providing strategic guidance to mission-driven entrepreneurs.

He earned his JD from the Yale Law School and his AB in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.