Serial Entrepreneur Backed by Tim Armstrong and Ron Conway Endures Despite Dubious Past
The headline couldn’t have been worse for then-27-year-old Nick Desai, in the June 8, 1998 Los Angeles Times business page: “Buyers Howl as Computer Maker Signs Off, Vanishes." The story proceeded to outline the story of Nimantics, started in 1996 when Desai began selling high-end laptops by mail order. By the time Desai abruptly shut down the company two years later, dozens of tech-savvy customers were claiming that they’d either received nothing from Nimantics, or broken equipment. Now he's back with a new startup, and already has plenty of high-profile backers.
25 May 2010•4 mins read
