Books That Make You Understand Anything Is Possible—Even in the Face of Hopelessness
At age sixteen, Payam Zamani’s parents paid smugglers to get him to safety across 1,500 miles of desert so he could flee brutal religious persecution in Iran. Not much later, he arrived as a teenage refugee in America, armed with only a dream. Twelve years later, he launched a record-breaking billion-dollar IPO—only for it to fall victim to the 1990s tech bubble, and the ensuing Wall Street meltdown.
Twenty-three years later, he bought the company back, and, within just a few months, returned it to profitability.
The story of Payam’s extreme swing from oppression to opportunity and from financial highs to lows is told in his new book, CROSSING THE DESERT: The Power of Embracing Life’s Difficult Journeys.