Amir Bozorgzadeh is the cofounder and CEO at Virtuleap, a startup that combines neuroscience with virtual reality (VR) to help increase attention levels and address cognitive disorders, such as ADD/ADHD, addiction and phobias. Born and raised in Canada to Iranian parents, Amir worked in the UAE for over a decade and is now based in Spain. In this episode: Amir shares his feelings of nostalgia for his ancestry's ancient culture and how his internal Canadian 'software' proved challenging to his business plans in contemporary Iran. The tech CEO talks about the power of VR to improve people's mental and emotional well-being but is critical of the technology's overuse and warns against anyone staying in a "meta verse" longer than they have to. He also talks about why the venture capital (VC) world is problematic and how his views have sometimes made him unpopular entrepreneur. Amir previously founded Gameguise, a mobile games studio based in Dubai, and Time Dirham, the first social impact startup to introduce time banking to the Middle East. He has been a contributing writer to tech blogs like VentureBeat and Tech Crunch on the topics of emerging tech, spatial computing, and startup ecosystems. Find out more about Amir: linkedin.com/in/amirboz https://virtuleap.com/