- On June 22, 2016
- By Michael
Young entrepreneurs dive in to start their own businesses, despite the high failure rate
Pixvana co-founder and CEO Forest Key looks around with a developer edition of HTC’s Vive, a headset for SteamVR, at his company’s office in Fremont. Pixvana, a company that works on virtual and augmented reality video processing, was founded in December 2015 and moved into their office space in Fremont in January.
Shot for Pacific NW Mag 4/24 issue on Startups.
EVERY DAY DURING the spring of 2011, Matt Oppenheimer sat in his pajamas at the dining-room table of his aunt’s house in London, making call after call to pitch his new plan for a company. “It’s a terrible idea,” the voices on the other end of the phone told him, again and again.
Reetu Gupta spent months helping her daughter apply to The Overlake School, a private school in Redmond the 10-year-old desperately wanted to attend. Gupta paid the $2,000 deposit after her daughter was accepted. Then she dropped the whole idea so she could start her own company.
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